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Smuggling networks to Europe: A spectrum from organised to disorganised crime
- Source: Freedom from Fear, Volume 2016, Issue 12, Nov 2016, p. 51 - 56
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- 16 Nov 2016
Abstract
As Europe struggles to find a coherent approach to its burgeoning refugee and migrant crisis, one set of actors has been universally vilified: the migrant smugglers. While they are not the cause of the current crisis, they have certainly amplified it, and are often responsible for the greatest violations against human rights and protection. Turning attention and public outcry toward the smugglers arguably allows the EU member states to detract – and distract – from their own derogations of their obligations to international law and refugee protection.
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