Dominant representations of contemporary smuggling and migration have created concerns of a "migration crisis" that is a threat to countries' national security. This narrative represents migrant smugglers as ruthless and human smuggling as corrupt and evil. Using evidence collected from around the world from human smugglers and the migrants they smuggle, the research presented in this volume of The ANNALS shows how smugglers are often friends, relatives, or acquaintances of the migrants they help and are not motivated by profit alone. And immigrants, seeking to make better lives for themselves and their families, often rely on smugglers to succeed in clandestine border crossings. This volume of The ANNALS explores the complex relationship between human smugglers and the immigrants they smuggle. It also shows how government policies and immigration enforcement and control measures can be counterproductive, playing a role in creating the conditions that lead to human smuggling.
1. Crimes of Solidarity in Mobility: Alternative Views of Migrant Smuggling - Sheldon X. Zhang, Gabriella E. Sanchez, and Luigi Achilli Manufacturing Smugglers: From Irregular to Clandestine Mobility in the Sahara - Julien Brachet Out of West Africa: Human Smuggling as a Social Enterprise - Stephanie Maher Refugee Protections from Below: Smuggling in the Eritrea-Ethiopia Context - Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste The "Good Smuggler": The Ethics and Morals of Human Smuggling among Syrians - Luigi Achilli Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia - Nassim Majidi "I Want to be Trafficked So I Can Migrate!" Cross-Border Movement of North Koreans into China through Brokerage and Smuuggling Networds - Kyunghee Kook Rumors, Encounters, Collaborations, Survival: The Migrant Smuggling-Drug Trafficking Nexus in the US Southwest - Gabriella E. Sanchez and Sheldon X. Zhang What Makes a Good Human Smuggler? The Differences between Satisfaction and Recommendation of Coyotes on the U.S.-Mexico Border - Daniel Martinez and Jeremy Slack Navigating with Coyotes: Pathways of Central American Migrants in Mexico's Southern Borders - Yaatsil Guevara Gonzalez Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry - Victoria Stone-Cadena and Soledad Alvarez Velasco Migrant Smuggling: Novel Insights and Implications for Migration Control Policies - Anna Triandafyllidou Special Editors' Note - Sheldon X. Zhang, Gabriella E. Sanchez, and Luigi Achilli Epilogue: Policy Perspective - Morgane Nicot and Bianca Koppa
