Trafficking and Syrian refugee smuggling: evidence from the Balkan Route

As of March 2016, 4.8 million Syrian refugees were scattered in two dozen countries by the civil war. Refugee smuggling has been a major catalyst of human trafficking in the Middle East and Europe migrant crises. Data on the extent to which smuggling devolved into trafficking in this refugee wave is...

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Main Author: Mandic, Danilo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In:In: Social Inclusion 5(2017), 2, Seite 28-38
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