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Migration and Home Affairs

Definition(s)

The procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the irregular entry of a person into a (UN) Member State of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident.

Source(s)

Art. 3 of UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime

Translations

  • BG: контрабанда на мигранти
  • CS: převaděčství migrantů
  • DE: Schleusung von Migranten
  • EL: παράνομη διακίνηση μεταναστών
  • EN: smuggling of migrants
  • ES: tráfico de inmigrantes
  • ET: sisserändajate ebaseaduslik üle piiri toimetamine
  • FI: maahanmuuttajien salakuljetus
  • FR: trafic de migrants
  • GA: smuigleáil imirceach
  • HR: krijumčarenje migranata
  • HU: embercsempészés
  • IT: traffico di migranti
  • LT: neteisėtas migrantų gabenimas
  • LV: migrantu kontrabanda
  • MT: Kuntrabandu ta’ migranti
  • NL: mensensmokkel
  • PL: przemyt migrantów
  • PT: auxílio à imigração ilegal
  • RO: contabandă cu migranţi
  • SK: prevádzačstvo migrantov
  • SL: tihotapljanje migrantov
  • SV: smuggling av migranter
  • NO: menneskesmugling
  • KA: (სახელმწიფო) საზღვარზე მიგრანტთა უკანონოდ გადაყვანა
  • UK: незаконне ввезення мігрантів
  • HY: միգրանտների մաքսանենգ ճանապարհով տեղափոխում

Synonym(s)

  • migrant smuggling

Related term(s)

Note(s)

1.The UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime was adopted by the UN on 15 November 2020.
2. It was adopted by the European Union with Council Decision 2006/616/EC, Art. 3 of the annex defines smuggling of migrants.