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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142535| Title: | A researcher’s visit to Italy : human trafficking and the Nigerian-Sicilian mafias |
| Authors: | Omilusi, Mike |
| Keywords: | Human trafficking -- Italy -- Sicily Human smuggling -- Mediterranean Region African diaspora Nigerians -- Italy -- Social conditions Organized crime -- Italy -- Sicily Mafia -- Italy -- Sicily Organized crime -- Nigeria |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Citation: | Omilusi, M. (2019). A researcher’s visit to Italy: Human trafficking and the Nigerian-Sicilian mafias. African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie, 23(1), 110-122. |
| Abstract: | This essay interrogates the complex nexus between organized crime and migrants within host countries. It specifically focuses on the surge of irregular migrants crossing the Central Mediterranean to Italy and the emergence of Nigerian criminal gangs who have cemented an ignoble but enduring cord with the Sicilian notorious mafia. This network, which took on a life of its own, has changed the traditional map of organised crime on the Island, defying both regional and global measures. The essay expresses concern on how Sicily intends to stop being “the refugee camp of Europe” through increased repatriations in the face of the financial, logistical and humanitarian implications of such an undertaking. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142535 |
| ISSN: | 10274332 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - ERCPSEI |
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