India, March 16 -- Dr Sean Columb, Senior Lecturer at the Liverpool Law School, has been awarded £100k from Leverhulme Trust as part of the Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his project entitled Gatekeeping Asylum: The Convergence of People Smuggling and the Illicit Organ Removal along the Central Mediterranean Route.

Increasingly organ sale is being presented as a gateway to asylum, which has resulted in a need for further examination, and explanation, of global responses to crime and immigration.

Providing a conceptual reflection on how law generates violence, Sean's research is set to provide much needed further insight into how crime and immigration controls shape the illicit organ trade developed around migrant populations.

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