Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Europe and Russia

1. Front Matter

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2. Networks: Rational and Cultural Components

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   Pages 1-20

3. Leadership and Structures

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   Pages 21-61

4. Making the Business Operational

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   Pages 62-91

5. Increasing Benefits, Decreasing Risks: The Impact of Learning

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   Pages 92-110

6. ‘Money, Money, Money … Always Sunny!’

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   Pages 111-132

7. Rational and Cultural: Conclusions and Policy Proposals

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   Pages 133-153

8. Afterword

   • Johan Leman, Stef Janssens

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9. Back Matter

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Through unprecedented access to over 100 court files and sentences, and interviews with police and security personnel in both origin and destination countries, this book provides the most comprehensive exploration to date of human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Eastern Europe and Russia.

• Criminology
• Trafficking
• Smuggling
• Migrants
• Southeast Asia
• Russia
• Anthropology
• Albania
• Bulgaria
• Romania
• Victims
• International crime
• organised crime
• anthropology
• crime
• criminology
• Nation
• police
• Policy

“The authors concentrate on the cultural background of criminal networks and how their traditions affect their activities, as well as incorporating analysis of their entrepreneurial endeavours. … Leman and Janssens set out to examine leadership and entrepreneurial practices commonplace in criminal networks, and essentially provide a business-centred analysis of these networks’ activities. … This book is thoroughly recommendable for researchers wishing to gain insight into the activities of criminal networks.” (Fiona Loeffel, Slovo, Vol. 28 (1), Winter, 2016)

• KU Leuven, Belgium

  Johan Leman

• Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium

  Stef Janssens

Johan Leman is Emeritus Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium.
 
Stef Janssens is an analyst of human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants. He has acted as an advisor to Belgian parliamentary commissions on organized crime and trafficking and to the US Embassy in Belgium. He is currently an associate member of the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

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