This article offers a critical review of how migrant smuggling arises out of restrictive migration
policies and how it has become increasingly sophisticated and professionalized. Reflecting …

The claim that there has been a remarkable revival of slavery, other forms of forced labor,
and human trafficking in our times has inspired widespread activism and a vast body of …

Klaus von Lampe es Profesor de Criminología en la Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht de
Berlín. Ha sido profesor en el Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice …

Borders of nation‐states have come to be a natural order in human lives. They are not only
edges of a state but also seen as an essential reference of national identity. Based on a …

The proliferation of more restrictive border controls governing global mobility provides
important sites of crystallization through which differentiated and stratified rights to …

As undocumented migration becomes more difficult, migrants' journeys become longer and
more fragmented. This is a response to new spatialities of migration control which are …

The United Nations has estimated that globally there are approximately 30 to 40 million
irregular migrants, a number that amounts to 15 to 20 per cent of all international migrants …

Graphic narratives of tragedies involving the journeys of irregular migrants trying to reach
destinations in the global north are common in the media and are blamed almost invariably …

This article challenges the categorization of smugglers as wicked villains by exploring
smuggling's moral economy. I present findings from two years of ethnographic field research …

LITERATUR 229 Page 1 Agamben, Giorgio (2003): Homo Sacer. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp.
Agustin, Laura Maria (2003): Forget Victimization: Granting agency to migrants. In: Development …