What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign wor
Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
β Scribed by Anna Triandafyllidou, Thanos Maroukis (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 250
- Series
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling from Asia and Africa to Europe....Pages 1-32
Migrant Smuggling from Africa to Spain, Italy and Malta: A Comparative Overview....Pages 33-65
The Southeastern Mediterranean: The Greece-Turkey Irregular Migration System....Pages 66-88
Human Smuggling from/via North Africa and Turkey to Greece....Pages 89-115
Human Smuggling from/via Asia and Turkey....Pages 116-149
From Greece to Europe: Migrant Smuggling from Greece Onwards....Pages 150-176
Trafficking in Human Beings....Pages 177-194
Migrant Smuggling: A Social Business....Pages 195-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-238
β¦ Subjects
Political Sociology; European Culture; Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Ethnicity Studies; Political Science
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