Choosing a Smuggler: Decision-making Amongst Migrants Smuggled to Europe

This paper explores how transactions between smugglers and migrants come about in the context of irregular migration. We first offer some theoretical reflections on the challenges that such a context poses to both parties—smugglers and migrants—and point to three main conditions under which smugglin...

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Main Author: Campana, Paolo (Author)
Contributors: Gelsthorpe, Loraine
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: European journal on criminal policy and research
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-21
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Keywords:
Decision-making
Information
Migrant smuggling
Reputation
Trust

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