الهجرة غير الشرعية في العراق: الدوافع والآثار

Abstract EN

Illegal immigration is a human phenomenon with its various methods (infiltration across borders / human smuggling / tearing up passports in transit halls / recruiting young people from criminal gangs / social fraud.

may be caused by economic, political, security, social and psychological motives: poverty / unemployment / corruption / political and security instability / weak citizenship / population increase / western publicity "civilizational development", etc.

its' negative effects (economic, political, security, social and health: decreasing human capital balance / growth of informal economic activity / money laundering / destabilization of political and diplomatic relations between countries / collapse of social cohesion / spread of diseases and epidemics, etc.

the study reached several results, including: provisions of border control, intensifying guards and patrols, and legislating deterrent penalties for suspicious elements working in the field of illegal immigration, etc.