Migrant Smuggling in Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Gibraltar: A Spatial Network Analysis

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Abstract

Human Trafficking and Migrant smuggling are types of transnational organized crimes that are currently tackled by the United Nations and INTERPOL, which are continuously posing dreadful threat to the whole world. Amongst all topics of the discipline of Criminology, human trafficking and migrant smuggling are somewhat understudied, without sufficient theoretical foundation and empirical data analysis. This article analyzes empirical data from the Death at the Borders dataset and conducts spatial network analysis to understand the temporal change of the migrant smuggling network that involves five European countries as the destination. This research provides potentially meaningful implications to relevant international policy makers and Non-governmental organizations.

Author

• Ruijie Mao, University of Florida