oceans 2.2.7 b trafficking

Question 1

what is one reason why moving people (smuggling and Trafficking) is done

Answer 1

It’s high profits with low risk
alongside it they run legitimate businesses

Question 2

define people smuggling

Answer 2

transportation and illegal entry scross an international border

Question 3

define human trafficking

Answer 3

human trafficking is smuggling but then for the purpose of forced labour or sexual exploitation

Question 4

reasons migrants accept being smuggled

Answer 4

Want a better quality of life for job opportunities or to escape war and conflict

Question 5

explain the relation between pricing and safety which the criminals offer to the migrants
why are their detours

Answer 5

The more money paid (2-3,000) increases level of safety

long details occur last minute to take advantages of weaknesses in the borders

Question 6

what happens when they go into debt in the pay as you go scheme
What do the migrants not consent to at the begin

Answer 6

the criminals, leave them stranded

the don’t consent to the small spaces, rape, human trafficking and boats not fit for sea

Question 7

What can be done to mitigate smuggling

Answer 7

Try to make it unprofitable, to discourage the criminal organisations
- increase international cooperation to find loop holes
- find the root that causes migration eg. war, prosecution, unemployment so criminals don’t profit from vulnerable groups

Question 8

name a
- drug trafficking route
- people trafficking

Answer 8

drug route = Columbia to USA (ocean)
mexico to USA (land)
people route = Indonesia to Austria
- south america to northern Europe

Question 9

Name the agency that manages smuggling and what do they do

Answer 9

FRONTEX- help patrol maritime areas, monitoring sea routes the smugglers use

Question 10

what UN general assembly resolution 55/25 do to mitigate smuggling

Answer 10

• defined what smuggling, in order to promote cooperation between states to protect the rights of the smuggled migrants

Question 11

What are the 5 challenges of people smuggling

Answer 11

• smuggling leads to trafficking
• smugglers recruit a network of people to not get caught
• corrupt officials at borders let them in, are never exposed
• unknown number of migrants smuggled in
• high profit low risk

Question 12

what are the 5 solutions to smuggling

Answer 12

• military attacks
• destroy their boats
• track money laundering
• target smugglers and not the migrants
• UN convention against transational organised crime has 141 countries joined in on it

Question 13

where are the main places for smuggling from Africa to Europe and why

Answer 13

Libya and Tunisia due to lack of governance