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How has migrant smuggling been constructed in the context of humanitarianism? What does the widespread distaste for ‘smugglers’ reveal? And most importantly, who are the people behind migrants’ journeys, and why does examining the way they become ‘smugglers’ matter? Drawing from empirical work with migrants and the facilitators of their journeys on both the US Mexico border and North Africa, Dr Gabriella Sanchez answered the above questions at a public lecture hosted by Utrecht University.Gabriella Sanchez is the lead of Migrant Smuggling Research the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence. With a background in law enforcement, she is the author of Human Smuggling and Border Crossings (Routledge 2016) and co-editor alongside Sheldon Zhang and Luigi Achilli of Crimes of Solidarity in Mobility: Alternative Views on Migrant Smuggling (2018), a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
| Period | 2019 |
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| Event type | Other |
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