Trafficking

Trafficking is a foreign word from English and typically referred to human trafficking, drug trafficking and weapons smuggling. Legally, this is the illegal trade and smuggling.

The UN Trafficking Protocol is the most important document for cross-border fight against these crimes.

Human Trafficking refers to the illegal " Send " (hence traffic, traffic ) of people. Often, the order is a migration background underlying: In order to break through the barriers to immigration of Western welfare states, the entry willing himself in the hands of so-called illegal immigration. These smugglers organize an appropriate payment illegal entry into the country of destination.

Smuggling were transformed over the years to lucrative sources of funds and the fees reach depending on the destination country heights of up to 30,000 U.S. dollars. Because of the high profit margins also organized crime interested in this area and returns to the part of drug trafficking and arms smuggling, human trafficking of people. The concomitant professionalization in terms of organization and procedure thwarted the efforts of illegal immigration warring states. The criminal network structures lead to a momentum of smuggling mechanism. Migration researcher Jonas Widgren estimated in October 1994, the annual turnover in the range of the trafficking to 7 billion U.S. dollars ( Eleventh IOM Seminar on Migration ).