Stefano Becucci 
Smuggling and Trafficking of Migrants in Southern Europe [EPUB ebook] 
Criminal Actors, Dynamics and Migration Policies

This book provides a contemporary overview of migrant smuggling and trafficking in Southern Europe, focusing on Spain, Italy and Greece. It considers how criminal players increase such activity and investigates institutional and structural constraints to legal migration in Southern Europe.
Migrant workers satisfy the need for a cheap workforce to sustain Southern Europe’s economy, and laws to counter irregular migration alter smuggling routes and expose migrants to forms of exploitation upon reaching their destination. Revealing institutional, economic and criminal factors, the book explains the persistence of migrant smuggling and trafficking.

Table of Content

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theoretical frameworks on migrant smuggling
Chapter 3. Irregular migration towards Southern Europe
Chapter 4. Trafficking of migrants for sexual and labour exploitation
Chapter 5. In search of explanations
Appendix

About the author

Stefano Becucci is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Florence. His research interests are the inclusion and exclusion of migrants in the receiving society, human smuggling and trafficking, and organized crime in Italy and other European countries.