What does the EU sacrifice when it prioritises migration management in negotiations with countries of origin and transit?
How does raising the costs of human smuggling make it more likely for migrants to fall into the hands of organised crime?
Are border fortifications/restrictions a useful or counterproductive response to mass movements of people?
We need policies that take seriously the complexity of migrant-smuggler relationships.
How does anti-trafficking policies lead to the separation of families?
How does raising the costs of human smuggling make it more likely for migrants to fall into the hands of organised crime?
Why are military tools being deployed against a humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border?
When happiness is a daughter in Europe, anti-trafficking policies don’t save you.
Human smugglers are widely portrayed as marketeers, yet the smuggler-migrant relationship is often coloured by moral, social, and even religious obligations. Heightened border policing has the potential to undermine all that.
Migrants travelling north from Central America employ guides and coyotes to facilitate their journey, but their time together is characterised by continuous re-negotiation. Español
Once mainly a sending-country of migrants to the US, Ecuador has become a transit zone migrants from all over the world as they seek to reach new destinations. Español
The level of professionalisation in human smuggling, according to our panelists, depends on the particular stage of the smuggling process and the sophistication of the border controls to be overcome.
