Smuggling and Trafficking of Migrants in Southern Europe: Criminal Actors, Dynamics and Migration Policies

This book provides a contemporary overview of migrant smuggling and trafficking in Southern Europe, focusing on Spain, Italy and Greece. It considers how criminal players increase such activity and investigates institutional and structural constraints to legal migration in Southern Europe. Migrant workers satisfy the need for a cheap workforce to sustain Southern Europe's economy, and laws to counter irregular migration alter smuggling routes and expose migrants to forms of exploitation upon reaching their destination. Revealing institutional, economic and criminal factors, the book explains the persistence of migrant smuggling and trafficking.

• | Author: Stefano Becucci
• | Publisher: Bristol University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1529222532
• | ISBN-13: 9781529222531