• 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  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Crepeau, Francois (2003). The Fight against Migrant Smuggling: Migration Containment over Refugee Protection. In: J van Selm, K Kamanga, J Morrison, A Nadig, S Spoljar-Vrzina and L van Willigen. The Refugee Convention at Fifty: A View from Forced Migration Studies.
• De Haas, Hein (2013). Smuggling is a Reaction to Border Controls.
• Gallagher, Anne (2001). Human Rights and the New UN Protocols on Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling: A Preliminary Analysis. 23 Human Rights Quarterly, pp. 975-1004.
• Kyle, David and Koslowski, Rey (2001). Economic globalization, human smuggling, and global governance. Global Human Smuggling.
• Schloenhardt, Andreas and Hamish Macdonald (2015). Barriers to Ratification of the United Nations Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2010). Model Law against the Smuggling of Migrants.
• Van Liempt, Ilse (2016). A Critical Insight into Europe's Criminalisation of Human Smuggling. Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.
• Van Liempt and Sersli (2012). State Responses and Migrant Experiences with Human Smuggling.
• Watson, Scott (2015). The Criminalization of Human and Humanitarian Smuggling. 1 (1) Migration, Mobility & Displacement 27.

 

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