Cross Cluster Towards a better understanding of human smuggling
In order to further our knowledge on a phenomenon as complex and, as yet, under-researched as human smuggling, a consortium of six European migration research institutes was formed in 2001, who would look at the subject – each individually and under its own responsibility – in close scientific collaboration in order to develop comparative perspectives. A common research proposal was developed and submitted under the umbrella of the European Science Foundation (ESF) and was consequently funded, with one exception, by the respective national science foundations. The resulting multi-year European Collaborative Research Project Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Migrants. Types, Origins and Dynamics in a Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective provided a constant source of inspiration and scientific cross-fertilisation.
The various publications resulting from this long-standing research projects employed various methodologies and generally had a slightly different research focus. Besides, the interest in human smuggling processes was entirely scientific and not policy-oriented.
In order to carry these very substantial results and insights of the (now expired) ESF research project further, and to explore the policy-relevance of the research findings, the five partners of the ESF project decided to organize a policy workshop in Bamberg in March/April 2007, where researchers and policy-makers could meet and exchange their insights on human smuggling processes from a policy perspective.
We plan to organise a workshop . Invited to the workshop will be ESF project partners, invited researchers and policy makers.
Deliverable
| Title | Type | Date |
| Towards a better understanding of human smuggling | IMISCOE Policy Brief | 2007 |
