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Mexican Migrant Smugglers and Foreign Terrorists

In: Terrorism and Developing Countries

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  • Simon Pedro Izcara Palacios

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Human smuggling and terrorism are seen as two related activities because the first is a potential source of funding for the last and it could facilitate the clandestine transportation of terrorists. Accordingly, the White House has stated that terrorists are among those who illegally enter from the Mexican border. Engaging a qualitative methodology that included in-depth interviews conducted between 2011 and 2018 with 144 Mexican migrant smugglers, this chapter proceeds from the following research question: Have Mexican migrant smugglers and foreign terrorists built alliances in order for the latter to enter into the United States? This chapter concludes that Mexican migrant smugglers have not built alliances with foreign terrorists. However, while migrant smugglers involved in simple networks were more inclined to think that foreign terrorists could not be smuggled into the United States, migrant smugglers involved in complex networks were more inclined to think the opposite.

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  • Simon Pedro Izcara Palacios, 2020. "Mexican Migrant Smugglers and Foreign Terrorists," Chapters, in: Syed Abdul Rehman Khan & Zhang Yu (ed.), Terrorism and Developing Countries, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:199413
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88427
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    Keywords

    terrorism; migrant smugglers; foreign terrorists; Mexico; US Southwestern border;
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    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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