The migration industry and the commercialization of international migration / / edited by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects
• Altri autori: Gammeltoft-HansenThomas SørensenNinna Nyberg
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations ; List of contributors ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1 Conceptualizing the migration industry ; 2 The migration industry in global migration governance ; 3 Migration trajectories and the migration industry: Theoretical reflections and empirical examples from Asia ; 4 The migration industry and developmental states in East Asia ; 5 The neoliberalized state and the growth of the migration industry ; 6 The rise of the private border guard: Accountability and responsibility in the migration control industry 7 Private security companies and the European borderscapes ; 8 Pusher stories: Ghanaian connection men and the expansion of the EU's border regimes into Africa ; 9 Migration brokers and document fixers: The making of migrant subjects in urban Peru ; 10 Public officials and the migration industry in Guatemala: Greasing the wheels of a corrupt machine ; 11 Migration between social and criminal networks: Jumping the remains of the Honduran migration train ; Index ; Routledge Global Institutions Series
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>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 security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.</P><P>This volume claims t
• Titolo autorizzato: The migration industry and the commercialization of international migration
• ISBN: 1-136-18088-5; 0-203-08273-7; 1-136-18089-3; 1-283-91965-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779318303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global institutions series ; ; 69.