Violence against migrants: understanding organized crime beyond violence

This article seeks to explain why there is more violence against migrants and transporters in some regions than in others. We compare the criminal ecosystem (number and type of criminal actors in a territory) and state resilience (a state’s capacity to take measures to combat organized crime) in the...

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Autores principales: Badillo-Sarmiento, Reynell, Bravo-Hernández, Amparo Judith, Mercado-Ramos, Alberto
Formato: Online
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Publicado: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2023
Acceso en línea:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1125
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Sumario:This article seeks to explain why there is more violence against migrants and transporters in some regions than in others. We compare the criminal ecosystem (number and type of criminal actors in a territory) and state resilience (a state’s capacity to take measures to combat organized crime) in the Gulf of Urabá (Colombia) and Agadez (Niger), and provide evidence from five other subregions between 2015 and 2022 using data from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s organized crime index. We found that violence is a resource that hierarchically organized groups have more incentive to use against migrants and transporters than smaller or poorly organized criminal groups. The hypothesis targets only violence against migrants and transporters. More work needs to be done to address other forms of organized criminal violence.