Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, Kyle, Achilli^+

Global Human SmugglingBuying Freedom in a Retreating World\nAuthor(s): Luigi Achilli, David Kyle\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421447513, 978-1421447513\nSynopsis\nCompletely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling.\n\nMigrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. In Global Human Smuggling, editors Luigi Achilli and David Kyle bring together up-to-date contributions from a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars on the most important issues related to this global phenomenon.\n\nContributors explore human smuggling in several nuanced forms across diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and cultural roots as well as its broad political consequences. This volume represents a cutting-edge chronic.