Migration and Crime in a Divided World: Strategies, Perceptions, and Struggles
Published date | 01 September 2023 |
DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00027162241251625 |
Author | Luigi Achilli,Antje Missbach,Soledad Álvarez Velasco |
Date | 01 September 2023 |
8 ANNALS, AAPSS, 709, September 2023
DOI: 10.1177/00027162241251625
Migration and
Crime in a
Divided World:
Strategies,
Perceptions,
and Struggles
By
LUIGI ACHILLI,
ANTJE MISSBACH,
and
SOLEDAD ÁLVAREZ
VELASCO
1251625ANN THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMYMIGRATION AND CRIME IN A DIVIDED WORLD
research-article2024
Contemporary research shows that current migration
policies and technologies produce criminality. It would
be advantageous, then, to understand how migrants
make sense of and respond to these criminalizing
migration policies, technologies, and practices. This
volume delves deeply into criminalization processes,
focusing on how migrants perceive and react to the
enactment and implementation of policy. The articles
take a close look at the day-to-day experiences of
criminalized migrants, advancing our understanding of
some of the societal effects of migration policies and of
the relationship between criminalization and migration.
The collection of work presented in this volume seeks
to inspire more critical scholarship, given that public
narratives about migration tend to present narratives of
tragedy and despair only. We argue that policy and
public understanding of migration can improve if we
understand more about how, exactly, migrants respond
to their criminalization and how they manage to sustain
their migratory projects and their lives.
Keywords: migration; criminalization; global apart-
heid; illegality; resistance; penal powers
Immigration is a pressing issue. Many coun-
tries in the so-called Global North and
Global South grapple with an influx of migrants
from areas plagued by war, political and reli-
gious conflicts, ecological devastation, and
Correspondence: luigi.achilli@eui.eu
Luigi Achilli is a senior researcher at the European
University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and at the
Christian Michaelson Institute (CMI) in Bergen,
Norway. His research and writing focus on migration,
crime, forced displacement, agency, and conflict. He is
coeditor of Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom
in a Retreating World (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2023).
Antje Missbach is a professor of sociology at Bielefeld
University, Germany, specializing in global and trans-
national migration and mobility. Her latest book, The
Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and
Australia: Asylum out of Reach, was published in 2022
(Routledge).
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