Back to the Drawing Board: Towards a Recalibration of Human Smuggling Scholarship

Drawing from ethnographic examples of work conducted along the US Mexico Border, North Africa, the Middle East and Australia among smuggling facilitators and their clients, this seminar presentation is a call for the re-articulation of the current frameworks present in human smuggling scholarship, which often have relied upon (and in the process, reinscribed) the very concepts they criticize to articulate theoretical underpinnings and empirical analyses.