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Migrant trafficking in Poland
Okolski, Marek |
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| Those institutions in Poland, which deal with migrant trafficking, tend to see it as a temporary nuisance and by focusing on the current symptoms fail to grasp the root causes and international measures needed to cut down the incidence of this activity, concludes the author of this paper. For the purpose of the study, it adopts the definition of “migrant trafficking”, as the deliberate facilitating of migration, conducted by various networks of intermediaries, and other agents, in the form of illegal acts, or acts conducted in bad faith, within a framework of commercial transaction and for the financial gain of the traffickers. It attempts to assess the scale and extent of human trafficking, to work out a profile of the migrants, their motives and relationship with the traffickers, and to acquire a better knowledge of how this trafficking is organised. It identifies and evaluates current policies and suggests a set of measures, which would both combat trafficking and protect the victims of trafficking. The last section consists of a series of interviews with the migrants, which helps to give the statistics a human face. |
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