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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Policing Humanitarianism: EU Policies Against Human Smuggling and their Impact on Civil Society by Sergio Carrera Valsamis Mitsilegas Jennifer Allsopp Lina Vosyliute
iPolicing Humanitarianism/i examines the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affect civil society actors’ activities in the provision of humanitarian assistance access to rights for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers. It explores the effects of EU policies laws and agencies’ operations in anti-migrant smuggling actions and their implementation in the following EU Member States: Italy Greece Hungary and the UK. The book critically studies policies designed and implemented since 2015 during the so-called ‘European refugee humanitarian crisis’.