The Conflict, Security, and Development Series—Profits of Hope: The Role of Migrant Smugglers in our Modern World

Co-presented by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School, the Center for Global Affairs at NYU'ss School for Professional Studies, The Program in International Relations at NYU's GSAS, the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner

October
03
12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Public
Date:
October 03, 2017
Time:
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
The Puck Building - 295 Lafayette Street, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012

As millions of men, women, and children seek passage to Europe in order to escape violent conflicts, repressive governments, and a lack of economic opportunity, their movements are enabled and actively encouraged by networks of smugglers and traffickers that amass billions of dollars by facilitating their transport. Many smugglers carry out their activities with little regard for human life. Others are revered by their clients, considered saviors who deliver them to safety and the chance for a better life. Peter Tinti, co-author of Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior, will discuss the people who comprise these networks, and why efforts to combat them often do more harm than good.

Speaker: Peter Tinti is an independent journalist and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Among other outlets, his writing, reporting, and photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Vice.

His book, Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior, will be available for purchase.

 

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