Table of Contents

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. Gortázar Rotaeche, E. García Coso and A. Obregón Garcia;
10. The Fight against Illegal Immigration, Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings in Spain. Ambiguities and Rhetoric Carmen González Enríquez;
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.

About the Author

Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Migration Law at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and a partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley. She is co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law and the Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe book Series.Paul Minderhoud is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He is co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law.

Reviews

‘Overall, the book offers a useful insight into how similar Member States are responding legally and politically to the issue of trafficking.’
Sandhya Drew, Common Market Law Review 44-3, 2007.