From victims of trafficking to felons: Migrant smugglers recruited by Mexican cartels

Autor: Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Estudios Fronterizos, Vol 18, Iss 37, Pp 41-64 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0187-6961
2395-9134
DOI: 10.21670/ref.2017.37.a03
Popis: The objective of this paper is to examine what are the methods used by Mexican drug cartels to recruit migrant smugglers and which are the activities carried by former migrant smugglers in these organizations. A qualitative methodology was used, consistent in the realization, between 2011 and 2015, of interviews with 107 migrant smugglers (105 men and 2 women). This paper concludes that after 2013, there has been an increase of recruitment of migrant smugglers by drug cartels without coercion, and that the activities carried out by them are increasingly violent.
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