Portrait of a human smuggler : race, class, and gender among facilitators of irregular migration on the US – Mexico border

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Cultural identity and belonging

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

• Governance processes

  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity