Prudnikov, A.S., Akimova, S.A. Illegal migration and administrative legal responsibility for some migration offences

Abstract: In order to fight migration offences in the territory of Russian Federation, it is important to improve and Implement migration legislation in the sphere of migration processes regulation: immigration, emigration, forced migration, voluntary movement to the Russian Federation by the compatriots from abroad, labor migration and resettlement. Absence of permanent sources of income of illegal migrants serves as a key criminogenic factor, which influences the number of crimes by illegal migrants and supports the influx of illegal migrants into the ethnic criminal groups and mixed criminal groups, as comprised of persons from different states. In order to prevent social migration-related conflicts it is extremely important to curtail the number of illegal migrants outside of scope of government social policy, since illegal migration serves as breeding grounds for organized crime and international terrorist and extremist organizations. Based on the statistical data for 2012, the article includes analysis of theoretical legal characteristic features of modern illegal migration within the framework of administrative legal responsibility for the most typical offences in this sphere.

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