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Marta Minetti

Contact email: m.minetti@qmul.ac.uk

Link to website with profile: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/research/students/profiles/marta-minetti.html

Discipline: Law

Degrees BA: BSc Communication

MA/LLM:

LLM International Criminal Law ans Human Rights

PhD Research Information

Uses, Abuses and Misuses of anti-Smuggling Laws by National Authorities
The application of different legal devices by the Italian Prosecutors in the fight against Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants

Brief description:

The research will be aimed to an analysis of the offence of facilitation of illegal entry as codified in the Italian legal framework and on the jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation, in order to get a better understanding of the interpretation of the law adopted by the Court and the overlaps with other legal tools. The thesis will also include an examination of the ways in which the uncertainty of the definition of the migration-related crimes has been instrumental for the Italian authorities in the targeting of humanitarian actors and civil society members

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Keywords: criminalization of migrants, human trafficking, Irregular Migration, Italy, criminalization of solidarity, migrant smuggling

Language(s) of writing: English, English and Italian

Country: London

Home University:

Queen Mary University of London

Faculty:

School of Law

Supervisor: Valsamis Mitsilegas
Start date: 24-09-2018
PhD current status: PhD Ongoing
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Added to catalogue on: 05-08-2019

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