Research Articles Supplement 3 · 2015 · pp. 14–23 · Issue page

ILLEGAL MIGRATION, A KEY FACTOR IN THE INCREASE OF ORGANIZED CRIME

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1 Phd Student, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of History and Philosophy, International Relations and Security Studies
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Accepted 28 March 2026
Available Online 15 July 2015
IN RECENT DECADES, MIGRATION FLOWS TO WESTERN COUNTRIES WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING, WERE BASED ON A VARIETY OF CAUSES AND FACTORS, OFTEN SOCIO -POLITICAL. ILLEGAL MIGRATION IS A SIGNIFICANT GEOPOLITICAL ISSUE FOR EUROPE NOW, BEING ONE OF THE MAIN FACTORS THAT GAVE RISE TO THE PROLIFERATION OF ORGANIZED CRIME. THE SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF THIS PHENOMENON ARE REPRESENTED MOSTLY BY DE VELOPING ECONOMY, WHILE MOONLIGHTING CAUSING AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN QUALIFIED LOCAL LABOR FORCE AND MARKET DEMAND, PROSTITUTION AND DRUG TRAFFICKING AND STEPPING ORGANS. ALSO, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND SOCIO -CULTURAL DIFFERENCES MAY REPRESENT THE FOUNDATIONS OF S OURCES OF CONFLICT BETWEEN INDIGENOUS MIGRANTS, WHICH MAY ARISE EXTREMIST ACTIONS. THE PRESENT STUDY , PRESENTS THE SITUATION OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT BASED ON STATISTICAL DATA PROCESSED BY FRONTEX. WE'LL SEE HOW TO MAKE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ILLEGAL MIGRATION AND ORGANIZED CRIME THROUGH THE OFFENSE OF TRAFFICKING IN MIGRANTS AND MIGRATORY ROUTES THAT. ILLEGAL MIGRATION IS THE METHOD PEOPLE NOT FOLLOWING THE LEGAL WAY TO GET INTO A COUNTRY CHOOSE. “ENTERING, STAYING OR TRANSITING A STA TE’S TERRITORY BY FOREIGN PEOPLE WITHOUT OBEYING THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY THE STATE’S LEGISLATION. THE SITUATION ALSO APPLIES TO THE EMIGRANTS LEAVING THEIR STATE OF ORIGIN WITH THE AIM OF IMMIGRATING WITHOUT FOLLOWING THE LEGAL PROCEDURES”. ACCORDING T O EUROPEAN
ILLEGAL MIGRANT TRAFFICKING COUNTERFEIT PASSPORTS
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