Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MAPS (MAPS – Migrants And People Smugglers: A Comparative Study of Smuggling Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Central American corridors)

MAPS departs from the idea that smugglers obey only to a profit-making logic, inviting instead for a more complex understanding of their roles; it argues that human smuggling is embedded within ethnic networks and local economies in origin and transit countries, and grounded...