Seminar The underbelly of migration governance Exploring the intersection of transnational crime and migration governance Add to calendar 2024-03-05 11:00 2024-03-05 12:00 Europe/Rome The underbelly of migration governance Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia and Online Via Boccaccio 121, and Zoom YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 05 2024 11:00 - 12:00 CET Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia and Online, Via Boccaccio 121, and Zoom Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies MPC: Migration Policy Centre Join the session that will investigate the role of transnational criminal groups in migration governance. Although this topic has attracted increasing global attention due to the intersection of migration management and crime, academic research remains limited. Most studies tend to view criminal groups merely as threats to migration governance or as peripheral actors. Here, the presenter advocates for a significant paradigm shift in conventional debate on transnational governance. Rather than merely viewing criminal groups as global challenges for various actors to tackle, we should acknowledge them as pivotal actors influencing these challenges. Based on empirical research on migrant smuggling and human trafficking in the Greece and Libya, this presentation sheds more light on the complex relationships between these criminal actors, state actors, and other key stakeholders in migration governance. It shows how criminal groups not only disrupt but also actively shape migration governance, and may even play a crucial role in the functioning and reproduction of its legal apparatus. In so doing, Luigi Achilli seeks to move beyond both mainstream perspectives that view crime as a mere challenge to migration governance and critical studies that frame the role of crime in migration governance solely in terms of a state-driven process of 'criminalisation'. Partners