The audacity to seek a better life: should the European Union adopt a human rights based approach to human smuggling?

dc.contributor.advisor Nouskalis, Georgios
dc.contributor.author Todorova, Elitsa Nikolaeva
dc.date.accessioned 2019-02-19T09:45:21Z
dc.date.available 2019-02-19T09:45:21Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki en_US
dc.description.abstract Human smuggling is a complex phenomenon triggered by a variety of socio-economic and political factors. The clear legal distinction between human smuggling and human trafficking, in reality, is obscure, especially for the most vulnerable. Despite the risks involved, human smuggling is often the only way for those whose rights are grossly unrespected, unprotected and unfulfilled elsewhere to seek dignity and a better life. Whilst the European Union’s values theoretically promote all human rights for all human beings, in reality the Union has been adopting an increasingly securitised approach along with a criminalising and highly-polarised discourse– all circumstances which exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and marginalisation among irregular travellers. It is high time that the European Union recognises the overlapping human rights risks for the most vulnerable and adopts a Human Rights Based Approach to human smuggling, as it has for human trafficking. Ongoing international negotiations provide a window of opportunity for the European Union to lead the way of change by adopting a comprehensive and dignifying Human Rights Based Approach for those who need to rely on facilitators to seek a better life. en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/20.500.11825/929
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/2049
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2017/2018;
dc.subject European Union en_US
dc.subject human rights en_US
dc.subject smuggling en_US
dc.subject irregular migrations en_US
dc.subject human trafficking en_US
dc.title The audacity to seek a better life: should the European Union adopt a human rights based approach to human smuggling? en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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