The Italian Mafias and Migrant Smuggling

During the last decades, the increasing flow of migrants in Mediterranean Sea has become a useful and profitable way to spread the power of organized crime groups. Today, the Italian mafias are non-state globalized actors which joint in complex networks to make illegal business thanks to Migrant Smuggling, exploitation of human capital, from outside the EU, and other criminal activities. The author presents an analysis of the public order, the state of safety in Italy, a main geopolitical gate to the so-called “Fortress Europe”.