Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Highways: Examining Nodal Points and Potential Strategies to Reduce Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling

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dc.contributor.advisorMullins, Wayman
dc.contributor.authorFaggard, Amanda Roseanna
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWilliams, Howard
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBensman, Todd
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-06T19:14:24Z
dc.date.available2018-08-06T19:14:24Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.description.abstractNational legislation requires America's federal law enforcement officers to disrupt transnational trafficking and smuggling of persons. However, ineffectiveness and episodic targeting has resulted in feeding into the smuggling and trafficking illicit economy. Continued migration from South and Central Americans, as well as Mexicans, across the Southwestern Boarder of the United States prove a lack of security. This thesis questions how trafficking and smuggling land routes function as a subgroup system of human trafficking and migrant smuggling illicit networks, if there is overlap between smuggling and trafficking land routes, and whether key nodes can be identified for better application of interventions. Using NVivo qualitative analysis software, the study examined 16 U.S. court cases of human traffickers and smugglers and 4 interviews of in the field border security experts. Combining an NVivo analysis with scholarly journal articles, government reports, and media coverage shows how smuggling and trafficking routes operate, identifies 4 leverage points for intervention success, and provided strategies for combating migrant smuggling and human trafficking networks.
dc.description.departmentCriminal Justice and Criminology
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dc.format.extent96 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationFaggard, A. R. (2018). Human trafficking and migrant smuggling highways: Examining nodal points and potential strategies to reduce human trafficking and migrant smuggling (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/7384
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjecthuman trafficking
dc.subjectnodes
dc.subjectstaging cities
dc.subjecttransit cities
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectillegal immigration
dc.subjectborder security
dc.subjectstrategy
dc.subjectmigrant smuggling
dc.titleHuman Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Highways: Examining Nodal Points and Potential Strategies to Reduce Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentCriminal Justice
thesis.degree.disciplineCriminal Justice
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Criminal Justice

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