The Criminal Law Response to the Migrant and Refugee Crisis
The Criminal Law Response to the Migrant and Refugee Crisis

Summary/Abstract: As the subject of elaboration in this paper, the authors refer to the phenomenon of migration – phenomenon that always raised special interest in scientific circles, but recent years is particularly topical and actual question. Migration may be reviewed in a form of several manifestations like: voluntary (mainly economic) and forced migration caused by persecution, armed conflicts, war or other factors. The issue of refugees, asylum seekers and internal displaced persons is also particularlyaddressed and it is a special challenge from phenomenological aspect. The authors also elaborate the international corpus of human rights instruments for the protection of migrants and refugees, starting from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Status of Refugees, theConvention on migrations in abusive conditions and the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment to migrant workers, International Convention for the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational organized Crime etc.

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