Einschleusung von Migranten: Ein neues Massenphänomen weltweiter Wanderung

Recently human smuggling has become a new mass phenomenon of worldwide migration. Despite its increasing international significance, migration sociology has hardly drawn attention to this problem so far. Against the background that Germany is a target country, the paper offers both basic information about the problem and its analysis from a sociological perspective. Human smuggling is a social process, that is triggered by an exchange interaction between migrants and smugglers, while the process itself becomes increasingly organized. In the paper, I explain the enormous growth of human smuggling by globalisation on the one hand smuggling related feedback processes on the other hand. The evaluation of previous measures shows, that western societies cannot control human smuggling without enforcing their borders.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]