The Migrant Smuggling Crime in Romania
The Migrant Smuggling Crime in Romania

Author(s): Nicoleta-Elena Buzatu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Scientia Moralitas Research Institute
Keywords: migrant; illegal migration; crime; organized crime; Romanian Criminal Code
Summary/Abstract: The study below is meant to focus on the migrant smuggling crime in Romania, especially the analysis of the migrant smuggling infraction provided in the Romanian Criminal Code. Being a component of the human trafficking activity, the illegal migration is a phenomenon that is continuously extending and harder to stop due to the involvement of the organized crime networks and also due the ingenuousness and maliciousness of the people and the criminals. Therewith, the migrant smuggling is highly connected with drug trafficking, terrorism etc., aspects that are connected with the organized crime. Legally, there are many differences between the source states, the transit states or the destination states, that is slowing the fight of the states for combating this scourge. During this fight of preventing and stopping the illegal migrant smuggling, the states that are involved aligned their own legal frame to the international one in the activity field, by elaborating and promoting the regulatory acts that have been putting the responsibility on the governmental and non-governmental institution in this activity field.

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