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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