Event: Global Migrant Smuggling

The International Organisation for Migration will publish its Global Migrant Smuggling Report in June 2016. Dr Frank Laczko, Director of IOM Global Migration Data Analysis Centre in Berlin, will give a talk about the current trends in migrant smuggling in Europe and Asia, its complex reality with human trafficking and asylum seeking. Dr Jiyoung Song, Program Director of Migration and Border Policy at the Lowy Institute, will moderate the session.

Dr Jiyoung Song is Research Fellow and Director of the Migration and Border Policy Project at the Lowy Institute. Dr Song brings a deep experience in Asian migration issues. She is an Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York.

Frank Laczko is the Director of IOM’s recently established Global Migration Data Analysis Centre. He was previously based in Geneva, where he led IOM’s Migration Research Division. He is the co-chair of the Data and Research Group of the Global Migration Group, editor of IOM/Springer Global Migration Issues book series and co-editor of Migration Policy Practice, a journal for migration policymakers and practitioners.

Among the many publications he has led are the World Migration Report 2013, which focused on migrant well-being and development, Fatal Journeys – Tracking Lives Lost During Migration, a report about migrant fatalities globally, and How the World Views Migration, a report about public opinion towards migration around the world; ‘Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ – Making sense of the numbers,’ a paper on the challenges around data and information about asylum seekers in Europe to be published in Forced Migration Review.