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Smuggling and trafficking of migrants in Southern Europe : criminal actors, dynamics and migration policies / Stefano Becucci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becucci, Stefano, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human smuggling--Europe, Southern.
- Human smuggling.
- Human trafficking--Europe, Southern.
- Human trafficking.
- Europe, Southern--Emigration and immigration.
- Europe, Southern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book focuses on migrant smuggling and trafficking in Italy, Spain and Greece, tackling key issues such as the role of criminals and the economic factors that expose migrants to exploitation upon arrival.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Smuggling and Trafficking of Migrants in Southern Europe: Criminal Actors, Dynamics and Migration Policies
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Research questions, methodology and sources
- The distinction between smuggling and trafficking
- The structure of the book
- 2 Theoretical Frameworks on Migrant Smuggling
- The business model versus the social system
- Critical points and aporias
- Organizational crime models of smuggling
- Hierarchical organization
- Network model
- Network of individuals
- The main characteristics of the three organizational crime models
- 3 Irregular Migration Towards Southern Europe
- Irregular migrants arriving in Spain
- Along the Atlantic Ocean route to the Canary Islands
- From Morocco and Algeria to the south-east Spanish coast
- Irregular migrants arriving in Italy
- Along the central Mediterranean route to reach Italian territory
- Smuggling organizations along the Sahara routes to Libya
- Irregular migrants arriving in Greece
- Along the eastern Mediterranean towards Greece
- Smuggling organizations along the eastern route
- A comparative analysis
- 4 Trafficking of Migrants for Sexual and Labour Exploitation
- Estimates of victims of trafficking and official evidence
- Spain
- Italy
- Greece
- Sex market laws in Southern Europe
- Different forms of prostitution
- Changes to the sex market
- Recruitment, transportation and insertion of victims into the new society
- Sexual exploitation: foreign and national criminal players
- Nigerian organized crime
- Eastern European organizations
- Chinese criminal organizations
- Latin American organizations
- Collaboration between local and foreign criminals in sexual exploitation.
- Severe labour exploitation and trafficking of migrants
- Agriculture
- Textile sector: Chinese migrants
- Concluding remarks: enslavement strategy
- 5 In Search of Explanations
- Migration policies in Southern Europe
- The post-Fordism model, market deregulation and labour exploitation
- Transnational organized crime
- Conclusions
- List of people interviewed (Italy, Spain and Greece) Non-migrants
- Migrants
- Appendix
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 5
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2255-9
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