Comparative criminal law: illegal migration

Migration is the movement of a person or a group of people, either by crossing an international border or within the same state. It is a population movement, which includes all types of movement of people. Regardless of distance, composition of the emigrant group and causes, it includes the migration of refugees, displaced persons, economic migrants and persons moving for other reasons, including family reunification. Illegal migration, through the lens of the criminal law, is clearly defined as a criminal activity, but this norm does not always achieve its goal of preventing and combating this phenomenon, and the criminal, effectively using, most of the time, the migrant’s state of vulnerability, it sometimes causes irreversible damage to human rights, with the risk of corrupting public financiers, compromising trust in state structures.