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1. Conceptualizing the migration industry / Ruben Hernandez-Leon -- 2. The migration industry in global migration governance / Alexander Betts -- 3. Migration trajectories and the migration industry: Theoretical reflections and empirical examples from Asia / Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann -- 4. The migration industry and developmental states in East Asia / Kristin Surak -- 5. The neoliberalized state and the growth of the migration industry / Georg Menz -- 6. The rise of the private border guard : accountability and responsibility in the migration control industry / Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen -- 7. Private security companies and the European borderscapes / Martin Lemberg-Pedersen -- 8. Pusher stories : Ghanaian connection men and the expansion of the EU's border regimes into Africa / Hans Lucht -- 9. Migration brokers and document fixers : the making of migrant subjects in urban Peru / Ulla D. Berg and Carla Tamagno -- 10. Public officials and the migration industry in Guatemala : greasing the wheels of a corrupt machine / Isabel Rosales Sandoval -- 11. Migration between social and criminal networks : jumping the remains of the Honduran migration train / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen.

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.This volume claims t.

This article analyses the interplay between politics and law in the recent attempts to strengthen the humanitarian commitment to saving lives in mare liberum. Despite a long-standing obligation to aid people in distress at sea, this so-called search and rescue regime has been marred by conflicts and political standoffs as states were faced with a growing number of capsising boat migrants potentially claiming international protection once on dry land. Attempts to provide a legal solution to these problems have resulted in a re-spatialisation of the high seas, extending the states' obligations in the international public domain based on geography rather than traditional functionalist principles that operated in the open seas. However, inadvertently, this further legalisation has equally enabled states to instrumentalise law to barter off and deconstruct responsibility by reference to traditional norms of sovereignty and maritime law. In other words, states may be able to reclaim sovereign power by becoming increasingly norm-savvy and successfully navigating the legal playing field provided by the very expansion of international law itself. Thus, rather than being simply a space of non-sovereignty per se, mare liberum becomes the venue for a complex game of sovereignty, law and politics. Adapted from the source document.