Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union: the Legal Measures and Social Consequences of Criminal Law in Member States on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings

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Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union: The Legal Measures and Social Consequences of Criminal Law in Member States on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings Elspeth Guild 1. French Criminal and Administrative Law Concerning Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Human Beings: Punishing Trafficked People for their Protection? Johanne Vernier 2. Trafficking and Smuggling in France: Social Problems as Transnational Security Issues Virginie Guiraudon 3. The Legal Framework of Trafficking and Smuggling in Germany: Victim Protection Emerging from Witness Protection? Katja S. Ziegler 4. Social Working of Criminal Law on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings in Germany Norbert Cyrus and Dita Vogel 5. Crimes of Assisting Illegal Immigration and Trafficking in Human Beings in Italian Law: Illegal Immigration between Administrative Infringement and Criminal Offence Matilde Ventrella McCreight 6. Looking for Some Coherence. Migrants in-between Criminalisation and Protection in Italy Raffaela Puggioni 7. Dutch Criminal and Administrative Law concerning Trafficking in and Smuggling of Human Beings. The Blurred Legal Position of Smuggled and Trafficked Persons: Victims, Instigators or Illegals? Bregje Pieters 8. Controlling Immigration and Organized Crime in the Netherlands. Dutch Developments and Debates on Human Smuggling and Trafficking Richard Staring 9. Trafficking in and Smuggling of Human Beings: The Spanish Approach. Main Issues on Spanish Alien Law and Practice concerning Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings C. Gortazar Rotaeche, E. Garcia Coso and A. Obregon Garcia 10. The Fight against Illegal Immigration, Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings in Spain. Ambiguities and Rhetoric Carmen Gonzalez Enriquez 11. Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings. The British Perspective Dora Kostakopoulou 12. The Politics of Irregular Migration, Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the United Kingdom Andrew Geddes 13. EU Action against Trafficking of Human Beings. Past, Present and the Future Tom Obokata Conclusions: The Variable Political and Legal Geography of People Smuggling and Trafficking in Europe Elspeth Guild List of Contributors Index.