1st Edition

The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration

320 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border... Read more

Introduction Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen  1. Conceptualizing the Migration Industry Rubén Hernández-León  2. The Migration Industry in Global Migration Governance Alexander Betts  3. Migration Trajectories and the Migration Industry: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Examples from Asia Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann  4. The Migration Industry and Development States in East Asia Kristin Surak  5. The Neoliberalized State and the Growth of the Migration Industry Georg Menz 6. The Rise of the Private Border Guard: Governance and Accountability in the Involvement of Non-State Actors in Migration Management  Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen  7. Private Security Companies and the European Borderscapes Martin Lemberg-Pedersen  8. Pusher Stories: Ghanaian Connection men and the Expansion of the EU’s Border Regimes into Africa Hans Lucht  9. Document Falsifiers and Travel Agents: Producing the Migrant Subject in Peru Ulla Berg and Carla Tamagno  10. Public Officials and the Migration Industry in Guatemala: Greasing the Wheels of a Corrupt Machine Isabel Rosales Sandoval  11. Migration between Social and Criminal Networks: Jumping the Remains of the Honduran Migration Train Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

Biography

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and External Lecturer in refugee law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on refugee and human rights law, migration management and state governance.

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her primary research interest is in transnational migration, the consequences of international migration on developing countries, and gender.