Political and environmental risks influence migration and human smuggling across the Mediterranean Sea

• Kara Ross Camarena ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kara Ross Camarena, Austin L. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: karaross@uchicago.edu

  Affiliation Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5561-2213

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• Sarah Claudy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation US Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Jijun Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Austin L. Wright

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kara Ross Camarena, Austin L. Wright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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