Navigating Borders: Inside Perspectives on the Process of Human Smuggling into the Netherlands provides an inside perspective into human smuggling processes.

Based on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands, it is shown that the underlying causes, the way the journey evolves, as well as the outcome of smuggling processes may differ considerably.

By using an inside perspective, it becomes clear that smuggled migrants are not passive actors, that there is a broad variety in types of smugglers, and that interactions between the two determine to a large extent how the process evolves.

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

Biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands.

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme.

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Ilse van Liempt wrote this dissertation at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studie (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam.

research

Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration