Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

human smuggling  

Definition

  • Human smuggling refers to the illegal transport of people across national boundaries. It includes both bringing migrants into a nation in a manner that deliberately violates immigration laws and harboring persons already living in a country and doing so for financial or other material gain. [Source: Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime & Justice; Human Smuggling]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/human_smuggling

Download this concept: