Out of Africa: the organization of migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean

How are human smuggling operations organized? This paper presents an empirical in-depth study of the structure and activities of a smuggling ring operating between the Horn of Africa and Northern Europe via Libya. It relies on a unique set of novel data sets manually extracted from an extensive poli...

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Main Author: Campana, Paolo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: European journal of criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 481-502
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