26 August 2024

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

"Malawi refugee camp raid unlikely to smash people smuggling networks," The New Humanitarian, 1 Aug. 2024 [text]

"A perfect storm for smuggling": New UNODC research on migrant smuggling in Southeast Asia reveals why people seek out smugglers (UNODC, Aug. 2024) [text]

Positive decisions by immigration authority remain very low in latest trafficking statistics (Free Movement Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Reports:

A Study on the Smuggling of Migrants as Transnational Organized Crime in Nepal (SSRN, posted Aug. 2024) [text]

"They don’t give you accurate information about anything": Pre-migration experiences of Ethiopian migrant domestic workers (New York Univ. & Freedom Fund, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tracing the ‘continuum of violence’ between Nigeria and Libya (Chatham House, updated Aug. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Anti-trafficking and humanitarian operations: transferring learnings for a better world," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 19 Aug. 2024 [open access]

"Mechanisms for confronting illegal immigration within the framework of Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants," Journal of Science and Knowledge Horizons, vol. 4, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"The missing link: the role of criminal groups in migration governance," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 11 June 2024 [preprint]
- "Based on empirical research on migrant smuggling and human trafficking in Greece and Libya, the article sheds more light on the complex relationships between these criminal actors, state actors and other key stakeholders in migration governance."

"The Not-Smuggling Problem: The Effects of the United States' Overbroad Definition of Migrant Smuggling on Migrant Families," Wisconsin International Law Journal, vol. 41, no. 3 (2024) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

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