Human Smuggling from/via Asia and Turkey

Abstract

Asian migrants constitute an important segment of Greece’s migrant population, both numerically and symbolically. This chapter focuses on migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Two of the largest migrant communities from the Asian continent in Greece, the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis stand out as the fourth and eleventh biggest groups, respectively, in the stay-permit data of the Ministry of Interior. Excluding Albanians, Afghans comprise the most numerous group in Greek police apprehension data since 2008. Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are two ethnic groups that also figure prominently in apprehension data over the years