• 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  

 

Key issues

 

The sub-pages to this section provide a descriptive overview of the key issues that lecturers might want to cover with their students when teaching on this topic:

• 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

 

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