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Calogero Gery Ferrara

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Il traffico dei migranti nel Mediterraneo. Il modello di business delle organizzazioni criminali

2018

Il contributo analizza il modello di business delle organizzazioni criminali coinvolte nel flusso delle migrazioni dall’Africa in Italia lungo la Rotta del Mediterraneo centrale.

Migranti business modelSettore SECS-P/08 - Economia E Gestione Delle Imprese
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The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea: Empirical evidence on policy interventions

2021

Abstract This paper presents a novel set of empirical evidence to explore several hypotheses regarding the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. The political instability in transit countries, such as Libya, that made pre-existent repatriation policies ineffective, called for several search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, which in turn have been wrongly accused of fostering illegal immigration and increasing deaths at sea. The empirical results show that the main determinants of the departures are several root causes at the departing African countries, underlining the importance of fighting human smuggling networks. The paper suggests a change in migration studies’ perspectiv…

MigrantsSmuggling humansSearch and rescue (SAR)Pull and push factorsProgram evaluationEconomics and Econometrics021103 operations researchStrategy and Management05 social sciencesGeography Planning and Development0211 other engineering and technologiesPsychological intervention02 engineering and technologyManagement Science and Operations ResearchMigration studiesMediterranean seaIllegal immigrationPolitical science0502 economics and businessDevelopment economicsNarrative050207 economicsStatistics Probability and UncertaintyPolitical instabilityEmpirical evidenceRepatriationSocio-Economic Planning Sciences
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