| LC control no. | sh2002001970 |
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| Topical heading | Human smuggling |
| Variant(s) | Immigrant smuggling Migrant smuggling People smuggling |
| See also | Smuggling Illegal immigration |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on facilitating the unauthorized entry of noncitizens into a country with the objective of making a profit. Works on the coercive commercial trade in human beings for the purpose of sexual or other exploitation are entered under Human trafficking. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Human trafficking |
| Found in | Work cat.: Global human smuggling: comparative perspectives, 2001. Chin, Ko-lin. Smuggled Chinese: clandestine immigration to the United States, 1999. Web site, European Council on Refugees and Exiles, July 21, 2003 (An overview of proposals addressing migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons: the term "trafficking" tends to describe movements of individuals against their will, whereas "smuggling" refers to voluntary movement on the part of the migrant; in the UN smuggling protocol, smuggling is defined as "... the procurement of the illegal entry into or illegal residence of a person in a State Party of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit.") NY Times, August 13, 2003 (people smugglers; immigrant smuggling) WWW, August 13, 2003 (people smuggling) |
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