Migrant Smuggling between Two Logics: Migration Dynamics and State Policies

Doomernik, Jeroen

doi:10.1080/03932729.2013.815027

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“…More often than not, trust and cooperation are crucial aspects of the migrant-smuggler relationship. 102…”

Section: Fleeing With Migrant Smugglersmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between

Ballière

2023

Iran. stud.

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A migrant's journey is no linear trajectory from A to B. It is a fragmented and complex move over different regions with alternating periods of mobility and immobility. This article researches the complex dynamics of irregular migration from Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between. Through a historical comparison of the life stories of Iranian asylum seekers in the Netherlands in two time periods (1988–1989 and 2009–2010), it studies the routes they took, their relations with human smugglers, and their interactions with immigration policies and border managements along the way. It shows migrants' and smugglers’ flexibility and capacity to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. Migration politics and border controls, along with their increasing limitations on legal migration channels, are indeed crucial in the understanding of irregular migration practices and the ever-growing involvement of facilitating services. Through a combination of this migration policy research and the migration trajectory research, the paper explores these dynamics and the interactions between migrants, smugglers, and state policies in every phase of their journey from Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between.

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“…More often than not, trust and cooperation are crucial aspects of the migrant-smuggler relationship. 102…”

Section: Fleeing With Migrant Smugglersmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between

Ballière

2023

Iran. stud.

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“…Further, as US border crossing has become more difficult and dangerous, coyotes’ fees have increased (Cornelius 2008). We see increased numbers and complexity of human smuggling networks that support migration into Europe, again, in correlation with tighter migration restrictions and border security (Salt 2000; Doomernik 2013). In short, we suggest that brokerage industries develop where the logistics of arranging migrations are too difficult to undertake with only the resources of a social network.…”

Section: Social Capital and Migrationmentioning

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When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal

Williams

Hughes

Bhandari

et al. 2020

International Migration Review

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The study of social capital has been one of the strongest areas of recent advance in migration research, but there are still many questions about how it works and why it has varying effects in studies of different places. In this article, we address the contextual variation in social capital’s effects on migration by considering migration brokers. We argue that destinations for which migration is logistically difficult to arrange give rise to brokerage industries and hypothesize that brokers, in turn, substitute for the informational capital typically provided by social networks. Our empirical tests in Nepal support this narrative, showing that social networks matter for migration to destinations where brokers are not available and have little discernible effect on migration to brokered destinations. Our results suggest that migration research should consider the growing role of brokerage agencies, that theorizations of social capital more broadly must contend with how it is delimited by brokers, and that social scientists might also consider other consequences that can arise from these migration brokers that are increasingly common in many countries and provide a marketized replacement for social capital in some cases.

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“…Prema tome, kao idealno rešenje kako bi se migranti (i dalje) držali podalje od teritorija Evropske unije, odabrana je još intenzivnija i još restriktivnija politika kontrole spoljnih granica. 26 U realizaciji restriktivnije verzije ekskluzivne migracione strategije, Unija je primenila niz organa i instrumenata. Na prvom mestu, proširen je obim delatnosti FRONTEX-a, agencije zadužene za kontrolu vazdušnih, vodenih i kopnenih granica Evropske unije.…”

Section: Intenziviranje Ekskluzivne Migracione Strategije Kao Odgovorunclassified

Crisis in the Mediterranean neighbourhood: A test for the European union migration policy

Stojanović¹

2015

Medjunar probl

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The paper analyses the implementation of the EU immigration and asylum policy and the control of EU member states' external borders in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. The author argues that the European Union pursues an exclusive version of those policies aimed at reducing the immigration pressure as well as preventing illegal border crossings into the member states. Two key mechanisms have been identified in the EU policy implementation: 1) a restrictive border control regime, and 2) agreements to transfer border management and supervision tasks to the third countries (transitional countries). The author emphasizes that the development of an exclusive migration strategy was not followed by the needed changes of the inclusive aspects of the EU immigration and asylum policy and the control of external borders; in fact, the EU member state's asylum systems were not preventively strengthened as to enhance national capacities to receive and integrate new migrants. The dramatic increase of the number of illegal crossings of the European Union external borders in 2014 caused the collapse of the EU immigration strategy, and failures in national asylum systems of the member states. The author concludes that partially integrated EU immigration and asylum policy at national level led to the dysfunctional external border management and the EU's loss of control over massive immigration influxes.

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Migrant Smuggling between Two Logics: Migration Dynamics and State Policies

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between

From Iran to the Netherlands, and everywhere in between

When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal

Crisis in the Mediterranean neighbourhood: A test for the European union migration policy

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