Meraki LabsDo information campaigns really work?Irregular migration is unsafe. We all know this — we’ve seen press articles about migrant deaths at sea, starvation, thirst. We have read…Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
Meraki LabsThe world’s next major crisisMigration is the world’s next major crisis — there is an influx of people at the gates, hordes of refugees and migrants are waiting in…Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Meraki LabsMobile Technology — Making Smuggler Networks More EfficientWe don’t know much about migrant smuggling networks. This is despite the fact that, according to the UN Office for Drugs and Crime (ODC)…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Meraki LabsMeraki in WonderlandFirst a caveat if you will as this is not the most diplomatically phrased posts, so please don’t let that put you off the other fine posts…Jun 11, 2019Jun 11, 2019
Meraki LabsSmuggling and Trafficking — Separate Crimes Requiring Different Policy ResponsesMigrant smuggling is in the news. Governments are taking urgent action, smugglers are abusing laws, companies like Facebook are cracking…Jun 4, 2019Jun 4, 2019
Meraki LabsBuild the Wall(s)?Everyone has heard of Donald Trump’s so-called wall (or is it a fence? Or is it solar panel farm?). Most people also know that Trump’s…May 28, 2019May 28, 2019
Meraki LabsA little known case studyIn 1990, Yemen, at the time a newly re-formed state, faced a dramatic — and almost unknown — migration crisis that may have helped to lay…May 22, 2019May 22, 2019