Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Kidnapping of Migrants and Asylum Seekers at the Texas-Tamaulipas Border Reaches Intolerable Levels (Washington Office on Latin America, April 2024) [text]

- Also available in Spanish.

Mediterranean Corridors: Tracing the Footsteps of Organized Crime Groups (OCGs) in Migrant Smuggling (Praxis: Fletcher Journal of Human Security, April 2024) [text]

"Research Findings on Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Asia," Modern Diplomacy, 16 April 2024 [text]

Reports: 

Cases of criminalisation of migration and solidarity in the EU in 2023 (PICUM, April 2024) [access]

- See also related Verfassungsblog blog post.

Comparing Smuggling Dynamics from Myanmar to Malaysia and Thailand (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2024) [text]

Enjeux juridiques relatifs aux femmes et aux filles victimes de traite des êtres humains, réfugiées ou migrantes, au Canada: étude croisée en droit des réfugiés et en droit criminel (Univ. de Sherbrooke, June 2023) [text]

Modern Slave Risks among People Lacking Official Documentation: A Global Evidence Review (Freedom Fund, April 2024) [text]

Secondary Actors: the role of smugglers in mixed migration through the Americas (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"An Image is Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Visual Imagery about Trafficking in the Online Domain: An Italian Case Study," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 19 April 2024 [open access]

"'Route Causes' and Consequences of Irregular (Re-)Migration: Vulnerability as an Indicator of Future Risk in Refugee Law," International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

- "Based on an analysis of trafficking-based asylum claims from the UK and Germany, the article shows that both re-trafficking and irregular re-migration result from vulnerabilities which converge to preclude reintegration in the country of origin and access to livelihood options."

"Strategic choices of migrants and smugglers in the Central Mediterranean sea," PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300553 (April 2024) [open access]

"La trata de seres humanos con fines de explotación sexual en el marco del derecho de asilo europeo y español," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (28 March 2024)