2006 Year Book on Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe
- Document number
- 2141
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- 2006 Year Book on Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe
- Author/publisher
- International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries, Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Begging, Removal of organs, Trafficking forms, Smuggling,
- Summary
- This is the 10th edition of our annual Yearbook on Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe, marking an important milestone in the life of a publication that aims to comprehensively document and analyse irregular migration trends in the region. Over this past decade, we have seen changes in migration patterns across the region, driven by economic, political and technological developments. At the same time we have also seen profound changes in the political landscape of Central and Eastern Europe, with many countries of the region joining the European Union and a space of free circulation of goods and persons. Other countries in the region have introduced a tight web of collaboration and exchange. Over this period, we have first witnessed a continuous rise in irregular migration trends, accompanied by an expansion of the activities of human smugglers who have developed a lucrative business, followed by a determined reaction of States - through their border guards, legal frameworks, criminal justice systems but also through closer international cooperation - to contain and suppress irregular migration and human smuggling. As a result, the States of Central and Eastern Europe - together and individually - today are better prepared to face the challenges of irregular migration as a consequence of globalisation trends than only a decade ago. For those who feared that the 2004 EU enlargement will lead to escalating flows of illegal migration across the eastern borders of the Union, the data compiled in successive editions of the Yearbook indicate that the opposite was the case and that the general downward trend of border apprehensions across the region has continued through 2005 and 2006.
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