Thread by @_gesanchez

🧵If you are looking for recent critical, empirical, evidence-based research on migrant smuggling & irregular migration facilitation processes that go beyond "transnational crime" & "business model" tropes, this is some of the research & scholars whose work you must check out.

@KheiraArrouche from @leedsUniversity researches informality and mobility among migrants transiting through and traveling from Algeria. Check her chapter in @euromesco policy study
euromesco.net/publication/be…

@alia_fakhry at @dgapev has examined the impacts of the EU's countersmuggling strategy in the Sahel, and is also co-author of @euromesco's policy study on smuggling.

@capassomat, Max Weber fellow at the @EUI_EU has examined the political implications of introducing counter smuggling strategies in Libya. Here, his latest: From Human Smuggling to State Capture: Furthering Neoliberal Governance in North Africa brill.com/view/journals/…

@AhlamChemlali at @diisdk, focuses on migration and border management, gender and violence, sexual and gender-based violence in Libya, Tunisia and Morocco, and the impacts of border externalisation. diis.dk/en/experts/ahl…

@NabilFerdaoussi has collaborated in projects that examine how migrants use information in the context of their trajectories into Europe. His current work examines migration, race, violence and necropolitics in the North African Borderlands.

@augustovak has just completed a study on EU migration policies at the Iran-Turkey border and how their overlap with Turkey's national security operations. opendemocracy.net/en/north-afric…

@linericht at @uni_copenhagen, has worked in Morocco; her research underlines how we must address the conflict and poverty fueling the demand for human smuggling. Her latest, for @Geopolitics_Jl. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@davidlsuber conducts research on borders, migration and smuggling at @UCLCrimeScience and is co-director of @brush_bow, a collective carrying out community engagement and creative journalism.

https://twitter.com/brush_bow/status/1376108218649296904?s=20

@aledlcp, prof at @CES_COLMEX and visiting fellow at @LSE_LACC studies trust, solidarity and social networks in transit migration through Mexico. Her latest: “Transient Communities: How Central American Transit Migrants form Solidarity Without Trust." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@yatescait, at @UBCAnth examines extracontinental migration through the Americas. Her latest, for @PublicAnthropol: Fusion Points: The Perceived, Performed, and Passive Merging of Criminality and Mobility in Mexico brill.com/view/journals/…

Luz Espiro (UNDLP/CONICET) has followed the journeys of Senegalese migrants to Argentina and the criminalisation of migrant solidarity under smuggling statutes. Prácticas comerciales entre migrantes africanos wolofs en Argentina: aportes para el análisis scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?scr…

@gigiklei at CONICET Fsoc-UBA works on Senegalese migrations to Argentina, the formation of transnational networks and the construction of social representations. Below, Senegaleses en Buenos Aires: Estrategias comunitarias pre y durante pandemia. huellasdelamigracion.uaemex.mx/article/view/1…

Livio Amigoni, Chiara Molinero, Cecilia Vergnano, based on their work on the France-Italy border: "Smugglers and Smuggled Migrants: Amid Sudanese Passeurs in the Border Regime of Ventimiglia" ibook.pub/ql/smugglers-a…

Fatima Nabila Moussaoui has written extensively about Algerian migration and the everyday dimensions of border contraband. Migrants: les traversées depuis le Maghreb bousculées par le Covid. mediapart.fr/journal/intern…

@shirtology is an independent researcher working on migration and security in West Africa. She is the author of Players of many parts: The evolving role of smugglers in West Africa’s migration economy, published by @Mixed_Migration. mixedmigration.org/resource/playe…

There are of course MANY other researchers who study smuggling critically & we are grateful for their work! Yet this thread sought to highlight the emerging, more critical, lesser-heard of but essential work & authors. Cite them! We need better, deeper perspectives in the field!

@NachoFradejas, @Abiquitous, Fazila Bhimji special issue on ‘Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe’, on how mobilities and informality are produced by border regimes; published in @MigrationLetter journals.tplondon.com/ml/issue/view/…

@RoxanedeMassol's "How useful is the concept of transit migration in an intra-Schengen mobility context? Diving into the migrant smuggling & human trafficking nexus in search for answers," in @transcrime's European Journal on Criminal Policy & Research. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@KheiraArrouche @LinaVosyliute @FalloneAndrew brief for @CEPS_thinktank on what the evidence says about the EU's Renewed EU Action plan on #migrantsmuggling. ceps.eu/ceps-publicati…

An urgent critique via @OhioState Elena Puga & Victor Espinosa on the articulation of migrants as victims in need of rescue & how these have learned to respond to the demands from scholars, researches, NGOs to perform their suffering. @PalgraveTheatre link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Much needed analysis on the diversity of migrant smuggling facilitators, and why it matters, by @transcrime @AlbertoAziani for Trends in Organized Crime. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In the context of #Melilla, read "The 'Assault' by 'Sub-Saharan Immigrants' on the media by Peio Aierbe for @StatewatchEU @Sos_Arrazakeria that shows no change in narratives or claims. statewatch.org/news/2006/june…

The work of @gringacolocha in Honduras also tells us of the trajectories from migrants to organizers of their own and other people's journeys. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jl…

A recent article in @TheEconomist quotes @MPC_EUI @luigiachilli who questions the UK's claims concerning the facilitation of crossings in the English Channel. #Calais economist.com/britain/2022/0…

Another piece by @linericht on how
border & migration enforcement in #Morocco creates spaces for the facilitation of crossings by migrants for migrants. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

On Moroccan enforcement: Telling Histories of the Present: Postcolonial Perspectives on Morocco's ‘Radically New’ Migration Policy; edited by @LWyrtzen (read her recent work on race in North Africa) & @Lorenagazzotti for @NAfricanStudies

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