The onus now appears to be shifting from the migrants to smugglers who have been profiteering from this inhumane trade.
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The forced return of migrants by European states has ignored pressures and interests of African countries of origin.
The recent deaths of migrants trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border through Indigenous territory highlight the history of colonial dispossession that the border represents.
Arresting smugglers is difficult, and doesn’t make migrants less likely to seek out their services.
Publicly available data on irregular migration is a welcome development, but it doesn’t tell the full story.
After the death of 39 people in a container found on the back of a lorry in Essex, England, there are indications of exploitation on the rise.
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
The number of people arriving has risen, but is not the highest on record.
New research questions the scale of support for tougher border security across Europe.
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of International Security, University of Warwick
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Research and Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Warwick
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Windsor
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Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Criminology, Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich
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Researcher, The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Senior research fellow, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Doctoral research fellow, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
