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Human Trafficking, Information Campaigns, and Strategies of Migration Control

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ID3757792
AuthorsCéline Nieuwenhuys (Service International de Recherches, d'Education et d'Action Sociale, Brussels), A Pecoud (0000-0002-3159-8338, Université Paris Cité)
Year2007
Volume50
Issue12
Pages1674-1695
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764207302474
OpenAlexW2157716683
LanguageEN
Citations received94
References cited22

Information campaigns have been launched since the 1990s in central and eastern Europe to prevent human trafficking and undocumented migration. They attempt to reduce emigration before migrants reach the border and therefore take place within the reinforcement of migration controls. They are designed to discourage potential migrants from leaving by promoting a negative image of migration to western Europe, thus relying on the questionable assumption that information plays a key role in migration decisions. By associating undocumented migration with human trafficking, these campaigns furthermore display moral and political ambiguities. This article discusses their ideological basis and the ethical issues they raise

Control (management) · Criminology · Economics · Emigration · Ethnology · Human migration · Human trafficking · Ideology · Irregular migration · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues

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