Navigating Borders: Inside Perspectives on the Process of Human Smuggling into the Netherlands (IMISCOE Dissertations)
Author(s): Ilse van Liempt (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: January 12, 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 9053569308
- ISBN-13: 9789053569306
Book Description
Navigating Borders into the Netherlands provides a unique in-depth look at human smuggling processes. Based on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands, the study reveals considerable differences that exist in smuggling's underlying causes, how journeys evolve, and outcomes of the process. This research from an insider's perspective clearly demonstrates that smuggled migrants are not passive actors, there is a broad variety in types of smugglers, and interactions between migrants and smugglers largely determine how the smuggling process evolves.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This work presents something new - a study of considerable academic and public interest, providing original qualitative research, a critique of the basic assumptions on human smuggling and interviews offering fascinating new empirical evidence. Ilse van Liempt makes a distinct contribution to the literature.” Professor Stephen Castles, Co-Director and Senior Researcher International Migration Institute, University of Oxford
About the Author
Ilse van Liempt conducted this study for her PhD dissertation at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam.