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To date, smuggling networks bringing Asians and Africans to Europe have operated only as far as Greece. ‘Greece is Europe; once you are there it is easy to go wherever,’ as many of our interviewees described to us what smugglers had told them and continue to say to prospective migrants. There have been a few cases where there was clearly a smuggling network attempting to smuggle migrants through Greece into Italy, where the latter were stopped by the Greek Coastguard (professionals no. 2 and 8). Apart from these, though, all our sources (migrants, informants, smugglers and Coastguard representatives) point out that the smuggling deals from Greece to Europe are arranged in Greece. That said, we shall also encounter cases where smugglers are not involved in the migrants’ attempts to move from Greece to other European countries. Contrary to cases of migrants coming without the help of smugglers from Turkey to Greece, similar attempts to get out of Greece are motivated by desperation and are not a result of migrant ‘agency’ and access to good information and contacts.
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© 2012 Anna Triandafyllidou and Thanos Maroukis
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Triandafyllidou, A., Maroukis, T. (2012). From Greece to Europe: Migrant Smuggling from Greece Onwards. In: Migrant Smuggling. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369917_6
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