The digital routes of human smuggling? Evidence from the UK

Diba, Parisa, Papanicolaou, Georgios and Antonopoulos, Georgios A. (2019) The digital routes of human smuggling? Evidence from the UK. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 21 (2). pp. 159-175. ISSN 1460-3780

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41300-019-00060-y

Abstract

There are justified concerns but little empirical evidence about the implications of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the business of human smuggling. The knowledge base on the use of ICT in human smuggling has rarely gone beyond the rather generic observation that the Internet and mobile technologies are available to and are used by both smugglers and migrants, and there is a concrete knowledge gap regarding the extent and the mode in which the use of ICT is integrated in the process of smuggling. In this paper, which is part of a wider research effort concerned with the role of the Internet in human smuggling in the European Union, we interrogate the outlook and implications of the use of contemporary mobile technology and of social media in the organisation and conduct of human smuggling to the UK.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgements The authors thank the Editor-in-Chief of the journal and the reviewers for their comments on an earlier version of this paper and wish to acknowledge the financial contribution of the European Commission (Grant Number: HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/THB/4000005855).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Human smuggling, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Migration, Organised crime, UK
Subjects: L900 Others in Social studies
M100 Law by area
M200 Law by Topic
M900 Other in Law
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Northumbria Law School
Depositing User: Rachel Branson
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2021 15:40
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2021 15:45
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/47526

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