Presents an inside perspective into human smuggling processes. Based on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands, this title shows the underlying causes, the way the journey evolves, as well as the outcome of smuggling processes may differ considerably.

The recent increased attention given to qualitative research, and especially research involving vulnerable persons, has not yet been adequately translated into corresponding research on the methodological and ethical challenges researchers face. The relative scarcity of such scholarship reflects the dilemma of the multidisciplinary nature of the study of migration. The aim of this book is to present the difficulties that researchers working with migrants in precarious situations have to contend with, and to contribute to the development of methodological and ethical discussions relevant to...