Human Smuggling in an Age of Pandemic

As COVID-19 chilled global mobility, harmed economies, and sparked border closures and travel bans around the world, the pandemic has had an effect on the shadow migration world. In this episode, we speak with Matt Herbert, an expert in irregular migration and human smuggling, about how the public-health crisis has scrambled the decision-making calculus for would-be migrants, pushing many into more dangerous routes. We also examine the business models of smugglers who facilitate many irregular movements.

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Human Smuggling in an Age of Pandemic is an episode from Moving Beyond Pandemic by Migration Policy Institute (Meghan Benton).

This episode is 24:42 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2020.

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