Global Migrant Smuggling Study 2018
Annotation
The study prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna (UNODC) does not focus on migration as a social phenomenon per se, but specifically on the phenomenon of migrant smuggling, which is one of the major sources of profit for organized crime. The material is based on the Protocol against Migrant Smuggling, which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime. This translated publication includes a section of the study that includes a Global Overview and then a section that covers Europe. The documents in this publication summarise and simultaneously analyse the knowledge on the nature and extent of smuggling, mapping also the main smuggling routes, the practices used, the profiles of migrants and smugglers, as well as the risks to which smuggled migrants are exposed. The text also draws attention to some important aspects, such as the fact that smuggled migrants are, in a sense, clients but also victims of smugglers, a source of their very significant profits and subject to often unscrupulous or even brutal treatment resulting from the abuse of their position.
Authors
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
ISBN
978-80-7338-186-8
Edition
Editorial series PRAMENY
Year of publication
2020