In this article, I draw from ten years of accompaniment with migrant caravans in Mexico to
argue that the caravan as a mobility tactic emerges in response to the increased difficulties …

Civil society organizations and individual volunteers were in many instances the first
responders to the so-called 'European humanitarian refugee crisis'. From 2015 onwards …

The decline in the smuggling of people from Indonesia to Australia since late 2013 is
primarily attributable to unilateral deterrence policies under Australia's Operation Sovereign …

ABSTRACT The 2020 New Pact on Migration and Asylum confirmed the continuity of the EU
and its Member States' largely repressive approach to migrant smuggling. Over the last few …

Empirical research and data specific to the dynamics of the facilitation of migration and its
actors in Libya are scant at best. Not only the country remains off-limits to most researchers …

One recent shift in the ever-expanding crackdown on migration and implementation of a
hostile environment for migrants in the EU has been the criminalization of migrant solidarity …

Abstract The European Commission has added the issue of Strategic Lawsuit (s) against
Public Participation (SLAPP or SLAPPs) onto its legislative agenda for 2021. In particular …

Migrant smuggling has been conceptualised in many different ways and from many different
perspectives. Over the last 15 years, the rise of more critical studies, which challenged a …

This chapter engages with a number of key analytical and methodological issues related to
the study of migrant smuggling and to that of EU policy-making. It also introduces the …

The introductory chapter sets out the main puzzle, the topic and the scope of the book.
Accordingly, having provided some background elements, in this chapter, I identify the main …