International Legal Acts Against Illegal Migration

Relevance. The problem of illegal migration is and remains a serious challenge to modern reality. Ideologically and strategically, it is perceived by the international community as a threat to national security, primarily of the host states, as well as their integration associations. For this reason, the search for effective means of countering this phenomenon and leveling its negative consequences, both at the state and interstate levels, does not stop. This circumstance exhausts the relevance of this study. The work is a synthesis of previous research.
The purpose of the study is to identify the shortcomings of the existing system of international legal acts to counter illegal migration and identify promising directions for its improvement.
Objectives: study of the provisions of international legal acts against illegal migration; their consolidation; determination of the specifics of implementation into national legislation; identification of methodological and other problems of their interpretation and use.
Methodology. In the course of work on the research both general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis), and methods of legal science (formal-legal, comparative-legal) were used.
The results Two groups of international acts of counteracting illegal migration have been identified. The first group is international standards of human rights and freedoms, as well as other documents that constitute the basis of modern migration policy in general (general). The second is international acts of a specialized nature, providing for specific obligations of states to establish in national legislation measures to actually counter negative manifestations of illegal migration (special). On their basis, the shortcomings of the existing system of the international legal system of counteracting illegal migration were identified, and promising directions for its improvement were identified.
Conclusions. Promising directions for the development of international legislation on combating illegal migration should be: improving the regulatory framework in terms of determining the formal and essential features of illegal migration; development of a consolidated international act defining the standards for the implementation of the procedure for the expulsion of illegal migrants, guaranteeing, on the one hand, the sovereign right of the receiving state, on the other, - the observance of the fundamental human rights subject to expulsion; improvement of legislation on combating transnational organized crime, specializing in human trafficking and smuggling of migrants.

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