Johan Leman is Emeritus Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. Stef Janssens is an analyst of human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants. He has acted as an advisor to Belgian parliamentary commissions on organized crime and trafficking and to the US Embassy in Belgium. He is currently an associate member of the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.