The Phenomenology Of Crimes Of Founding Slavery And Transportation Of Persons In Slavery In Republic Of North Macedonia: 2007-2018
The Phenomenology Of Crimes Of Founding Slavery And Transportation Of Persons In Slavery In Republic Of North Macedonia: 2007-2018

Author(s): Blerta Arifi
Subject(s): Criminology, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: smuggling migrant; transporting of persons in slavery; abuse of visa-free-regime; human trafficking;
Summary/Abstract: While migration is becoming a major issue in most of the countries in the last several years, Republic of North Macedonia has proven to be an important transit country along the Balkan migration route. The country currently uses one main detention facility, euphemistically labelled as the “Reception Centre for Foreigners,” as well as some ad hoc “transit” camps along its borders. Despite the harsh policies in this area with the aim of halting migration flow, during the last several years there have been evidenced a considerable number of cases of crimes which belong to the group of the “founding slavery and transportation of persons in slavery” which are incriminated in article 418 of the Criminal Code of Republic of Macedonia, in Chapter thirty four on the group of the “Criminal offences against humanity and international law”.This research paper reflects on and analyzes the criminal policy of Republic of North Macedonia on the illegal migration and other criminal offences related to this phenomenon, based on the explanation of the phenomenology of the types of these crimes, such as: Human trafficking (art.418-a); Smuggling of migrants (art.418-b); Organizing a group and instigating performance of crimes of human trafficking, trafficking of juveniles and migrants (art. 418-c); Abuse of visa-free regime with the member countries of the EU and the Schengen Agreement (art.418-e). This paper will reflect on the structure, dynamics and volume of the crimes mentioned above based on the official statistical data published by the State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia for the period of January 2007- December 2018. Additionally, this research attempts to reflect the real picture of the reported, accused and convicted perpetrators of the crimes which are subject of this research, as well as provide some detailed data analysis on indicators such as gender, age, the number and the type of the criminal offences during: 2007-2018, the type of the decision of the court, the type of the sentence applied.

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