Scrutinising the double disadvantage: knowledge production in the messy field of migrant smuggling
Scrutinising the double disadvantage: knowledge production in the messy field of migrant smuggling
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2015.1103172
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发表时间：
2016-02-19
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
van Liempt, Ilse
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作者：
Baird, Theodore;van Liempt, Ilse
人口走私是一个全球性现象，一直难以研究。尽管关于偷运人口的文献数量庞大且不断增加，但缺乏对主要理论和概念方法的系统审查。除了缺乏概念上的一致性外，由于方法上的挑战，从根本上缺乏确凿的证据来证实偷运过程的大多数方面。这种“双重劣势”是现有走私研究中理论和概念差异的重要解释。为了澄清和理解走私领域内的理论方法的多样性，本文提供了对各种文献阅读的概述。我们确定需要更好地了解我们的知识走私是如何在这个混乱的领域构建。此外，我们质疑为什么我们正在产生特定类型的知识，并主张在人口走私领域开展更重要的工作。
Human smuggling is a global phenomenon which has been difficult to research. Even though there is a large and growing literature on human smuggling, it lacks a systematic review of the major theoretical and conceptual approaches. Besides the lack of conceptual cohesion, there is fundamental lack of hard evidence to substantiate most aspects of the smuggling process because of methodological challenges. This 'double disadvantage' is an important explanation for theoretical as well as conceptual discrepancies in existing smuggling studies. In order to clarify and understand the diversity of theoretical approaches within the field of smuggling this article provides an overview of various readings of the literature. We identify a need to better understand how our knowledge about smuggling is constructed in this messy field. Furthermore, we question why we are producing particular types of knowledge and argue for more critical work in the field of human smuggling.