Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
ISBN:
9781136180897
Serie:
Global institutions
Inhalt:
Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.This volume claims that today
Anmerkung:
Cover; The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Conceptualizing the migration industry; 2 The migration industry in global migration governance; 3 Migration trajectories and the migration industry: Theoretical reflections and empirical examples from Asia; 4 The migration industry and developmental states in East Asia; 5 The neoliberalized state and the growth of the migration industry
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6 The rise of the private border guard: Accountability and responsibility in the migration control industry7 Private security companies and the European borderscapes; 8 Pusher stories: Ghanaian connection men and the expansion of the EU's border regimes into Africa; 9 Migration brokers and document fixers: The making of migrant subjects in urban Peru; 10 Public officials and the migration industry in Guatemala: Greasing the wheels of a corrupt machine; 11 Migration between social and criminal networks: Jumping the remains of the Honduran migration train; Index
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Routledge Global Institutions Series
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415623780
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Internationale Migration
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Illegale Einwanderung
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Fluchthilfe
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Kommerzialisierung
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Electronic books
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Mehr zum Autor:
Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg
Mehr zum Autor:
Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas
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