• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 5: Smuggling of Migrants in the Broader Context of Migration and its Drivers

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Migration and migrant smuggling
  • Mixed migration flows
  • The social politics of migrant smuggling
  • Vulnerability
  • Profile of Smugglers
  • Addressing demand: the role of organized criminal groups
  • Humanitarianism, security and migrant smuggling

• Exercises

• Additional exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019. 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Other resources

 

• Carens, Joseph (2013). The Ethics of Immigration. Oxford University Press
• Cuttitta, Paolo (2017). Delocalization, Humanitarianism, and Human Rights: The Mediterranean Border Between Exclusion and Inclusion. Antipode
• European University Instittue (2012). Is it time for Italy to resume cooperation with Libya in the field of migration?
• Goodwin-Gill, Guy S. (2001). Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Non-penalization, Detention and Protection.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2010). A Short Introduction to Migrant Smuggling . Issue Paper
• Migration Policy Institute. Maps of Immigrants and Emigrants Around the World.
• Nianias, Helen (2016). " Refugees in Lesbos: are there too many NGOs on the island?" The Guardian
• Report of the European Commission, DG Migration & Home Affairs (2015). A Study on Smuggling of Migrants.
• Report of the International Organization for Migration (2018). Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 33,400 in 2018; Deaths Reach 785.
• Safdar, Anealla (2016). "NGOs Decry Charges Against Volunteers in Greece." Al Jazeera
• United Nations (2010). Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2017). Climate Change and Disaster Displacement: An Overview of UNHCR's Role.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Afghanistan.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2016.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Migration and Human Rights.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Supplementary Appeal - Myanmar Refugee Emergency Response in Bangladesh.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Syria Emergency.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Tunisia.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2015). Migrant Smuggling in Asia: Current Trends and Related Challenges.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants 2018.
• WOLA (2017). Mexico's Southern Border - Security, Central American Migration, and U.S. Policy.

 

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