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Smuggled Migrants as Victims?

Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime, 2021
Abstract After outlining the UN Protocol’s general approach to migrant smuggling, this article raises the question of whether and to what extent smuggled migrants can be said to be victims of this crime. The author argues that an affirmative answer is possible in at least three different respects: smuggled migrants can be victimized by states fighting ...
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Smuggling of Migrants and Refugees

2021
Abstract This chapter focuses on the smuggling of migrants in the context of refugee movements, and examines the scope and application of international law pertaining to these phenomena. The principal binding global instrument on this topic is the United Nations Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air which, on ...
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The Legal Definition of the Smuggling of Migrants in Light of the Provisions of the Migrant Smuggling Protocol

The Journal of Criminal Law, 2015
This article argues that the legal definition of the smuggling of migrants in Article 3(a) of the Migrant Smuggling Protocol has a number of deficiencies, which might affect adversely the Protocol’s purpose of combating migrant smuggling set forth in Article 2.
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Return of Smuggled Migrants

2023
Abstract This article considers the fundamental return of smuggled migrants, both to deny them the benefit of being smuggled and send a message to other persons considering attempts at unauthorized entry, as a fundamental part of a strategy to preventing and combatting migrant smuggling. It explains the term ‘return’ in broadly entailing
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Migrant Smuggling

2018
Abstract ‘Irregular migration’ in the sense of unauthorized crossing of borders even if in pursuit of asylum raises two questions: whether the movement of individuals whose status as refugees is yet to be determined is a lawful form of migratory movement or not; and whether assisting these individuals to cross borders is lawful or not ...
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Financing the Smuggling of Migrants into Australia

Criminal Law Journal, 2014
In 2010, new offences were added to Australia’s Migration Act 1958 (Cth) and Criminal Code (Cth) to criminalize financially supporting the smuggling of migrants (or ‘people smuggling’ as it is locally referred to). Further reforms followed in 2011 to prevent and suppress the use of alternative remittance systems to finance migrant smuggling.
Schloenhardt, Andreas, Cottrell, Thomas
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Smuggling of Migrants

Smuggling of migrants refers to the procurement in order to obtain a material benefit of the illegal entry of a person into a country of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident. Smuggling of migrants thrives where border fortifications and controls are particularly tight and meaningful legal avenues of migration are lacking, thus ...
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Trafficked and Smuggled Migrants

2019
Abstract This chapter focuses on the conventions adopted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) that deal specifically with trafficked or smuggled migrants. In 2000, new legal classifications of migrants emerged with the adoption of the UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the UN Protocol to ...
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