The Home Office: Migrant research

The RICU in the UK Home Office used a mix of qualitative research and open source analysis to uncover insights into criminal networks that endanger migrants.

Seeking to understand how criminal networks engage with and influence vulnerable migrants who are trying to cross Europe and gain illegal entry into the UK was never going to be easy. The brief was to try and understand, with as much granularity as possible, the different ways in which migrant journeys are facilitated by criminal networks. BritainThinks has been working on this innovative programme for the last year and has helped government to glean real insight into how organised criminal networks are exploiting and endangering migrants.

Our overall approach has been to take, as our starting point, a series of...

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