06 February 2025

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Human Trafficking: In the Czech Republic and Around the World (People in Need, Jan. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Irregular migration vs. migrant smuggling – what is the difference? (UNODC, Jan. 2025) [text]

"Some migrants turn to pricey smugglers or riskier routes after Trump clampdown," Reuters, 24 Jan. 2025 [text]

Trafficked migrant and refugee women in Latin America: State responses and challenges (Dejusticia Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

What is Labor Trafficking? (USCRI, Jan. 2025) [text]

Reports from the Mixed Migration Centre: 

Gendered smuggler-migrant interactions in the Central Sahel (Jan. 2025) [text]

Migrants’ Perceptions of Smugglers in Port Sudan: Service providers and sometimes criminals (Jan. 2025) [text]

Smugglers’ role in migration journeys to Port Sudan: Eritrean, Ethiopian & South Sudanese migrant experiences (Jan. 2025) [text]

Smuggling dynamics on the Eastern Route through Yemen (Jan. 2025) [text]

Other reports, journal articles & book chapters:

Countering Trafficking in Persons and Migrant Smuggling in Mixed Migration Movements (UNODC, 2024) [text]

"Legitimacy and Rationalization in European Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis of the Criminalization of Migrant Smuggling," Univ. of Bologna Law Review, vol. 9, no. 2 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"New pathways to trafficking victims’ protection? Intersection and synergies between the European Pact on Migration and Asylum and Directive (EU) 2024/1712 for third-country national victims," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

"Las Trayectorias Migratorias de Mujeres Venezolanas en Cúcuta, Colombia: Entre Vulnerabilidades, Explotaciones y Trata de Personas," Chapter in Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidade e a Proteção a Pessoas Refugiadas na América Latina (Editora Universitária Leopoldianum, Nov. 2024) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 386.

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