Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys across the Globe explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. All contributors to this volume agree on the inadequacy of current approaches and the dire need for change in global migration law and policy. Therefore, the book seeks to inform, educate, persuade, and facilitate newer or less-heard perspectives, toward wider participation and influence within the forced migration policy debate. Guided by the famous advice of Karl Marx that the point should be changing the world rather than merely analyzing or interpreting it, the contributors suggest practical measures to fix the current gap in responses to migrant peril, along with strategies for diagnosing, countering, and promoting human dignity and social justice, with the aim of preventing future deaths and injuries in migrant journeys across the globe.

Veronica Fynn Bruey is lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Coast.

Steven W. Bender is professor of law at Seattle University.

Part I: The Dangerous Journey



Chapter 1. Learning to Look Mexican: Central American Minor Migrants and their Strategies to Minimize the Risks of Migration

Angel Alfonso Escamilla García



Chapter 2. Responding to the Backway: The Migrant Crisis and The Gambia

Niklas Hultin and Franzisca Zanker



Chapter 3. Voyaging into the Unknown as Migrants and the Trafficked: Women and Girls Traveling from Kenya to Al-Shabaab Warfront in Somalia

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen



Part II: Refugee Narratives and Dangerous Journeys



Chapter 4. Refugee Status for Survivors of Dangerous Journeys? Establishing a Nexus to Nationality

Maja Grundler



Chapter 5. Refugee Narratives and Lived Experiences: Deconstructing Negative Attitudes within the European Public Sphere

Muhamed Shiwan Amin



Chapter 6. Destination Australia: Journeys of the Moribund

Kate Ogg



Part III: Life and Death Before, During and After Migration



Chapter 7. Voyages after Death: Identifying Bodies from the Mediterranean Sea

Arianna Jacqmin



Chapter 8. Deadly Deportations: A Perspective from the Americas

Steven W. Bender



Part IV: Climate Change, Disaster, Environment, Migration



Chapter 9. Climate-Related Displacement in the Age of the Anthropocene

Nergis Canefe and Azin Emami



Chapter 10. Disaster Displacement in Humanitarian and Development Contexts

Chien-yu Liu



Chapter 11. Managing Cross-border Climate-induced Migration in the Africa Union: Legal Implications and Policy Interventions

Michael Addaney





Part V: Law and Policy Affecting Deadly Voyages: Strategies For Reform



Chapter 12. Environmental Refugees from Bangladesh: Avenues for Refuge in India

Tarini Mehta



Chapter 13. Deadly Voyage of African Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean: AU-EU Law and Policy Response

Veronica Fynn Bruey



Chapter 14. Short-sighted Solutions: An Examination of Europes Response to the Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Fikrejesus (Fikresus) Amahazion



Chapter 15. Canadas Response to Recent Cross-Border Arrivals from the U.S.: Whats in the Message?

Sasha Baglay