The new edited volume Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below engages with smuggling from the perspective of both the ‘smuggler’ and the smuggled. In contrast to more state-centric or seeing-from-above perspectives, this edited volume applies from-below methodological approaches to address issues of borders and border transgressions. Even with the diversity of case studies and views on the overarching subject of the collection, it is remarkably consistent, with each chapter offering equally valuable insights into the smuggling phenomena. The volume connects bodies, geographies, images, materialities, and economies as case studies of smuggling. It begins with a detailed introduction by the editors, Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi, that summarizes the structure and main arguments of the book. The case studies themselves explore the illegal movement of people and goods across borders through fieldwork and conceptual framings. They ask the reader to look at smuggling practices within broader cultural, historical, and social contexts. Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste (Chapter 1) and Aliyeh Ataei (Chapter 3) explore people smuggling between Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia and Iran and Afghanistan. Nichola Khan (Chapter 2), Rebecca B. Galemba (Chapter 4), Amin Parsa (Chapter 5), and Javier Guerrero-C (Chapter 6) engage with the smuggling of goods in places such as India, South Asia, the Mexico–Guatemala border, Iran and Iraq, and the northern border of Columbia. Meanwhile, Debdatta Chowdhury (Chapter 7), Kennedy Chikerema (Chapter 8), Craig Martin (Chapter 9), and Simon Harvey (Chapter 10) use more conceptual frameworks to understand how the past shapes modern smuggling practices, infrastructures of smuggling, smuggler tactics to conceal illegal narcotics as legally sanctioned goods, and the presentations of smuggling as either hidden or overly evident. The collection concludes with an afterword by Nandita Sharma, which is discussed in more detail below.