• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 1: Migrant Smuggling as a Specific Crime Type

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • The criminalization of smuggling of migrants
  • • UNTOC and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants
    • Offences under the Protocol
    • Financial or other material benefit
    • Aggravating circumstances
    • Criminal liability
  • Non-criminalization of smuggled migrants
  • • The scope of protection
    • Humanitarian exemption
    • Jurisdiction
  • Migrant smuggling v. irregular migration
  • Migrant smuggling vis-à-vis other crime types

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2019.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Other resources

 

• BBC News (2009). " Italy Acquits Migrant Rescue Crew."
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2013). Corruption and the Smuggling of Migrants.
• United Nations (1998). Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
• THEMIS 2015 Competition, Smuggling of Migrants Across the Mediterranean: A EU-Wide Legal Challenge.
• United Nations (2004). Legislative Guides for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018). Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants 2018 .

 

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