Luigi Achilli is a senior researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. David Kyle is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador.

"This book explores human smuggling in several nuanced forms across diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences"--