Cuando las personas se vuelven “mercancías”: Respuestas jurídicas para luchar a favor de las víctimas y contra las mafias que trafican en el Mediterráneo (When people become “merchandise”: Legal responses to fight in favor of the victims and against...)
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Víctima, delincuencia organizada, contrabando de personas, trata, Mediterráneo, Victim, organized crime, people smuggling, trafficking on human beings, Mediterranean SeaAbstract
Son miles las personas que se juegan la vida por cruzar el Mediterráneo hacia un futuro incierto pero prometedor. En el trayecto –que dura años– pasan a estar a merced de los grupos organizados para quienes son mera “mercancía” de la cual pueden obtener un beneficio… o dos: el que paga la persona o sus familiares por llegar al viejo continente y su explotación por el camino. Esta cosificación hace que la delgada línea que separa el tráfico del delito de trata de seres humanos se difumine cuando no desaparezca. Ante esta realidad, el artículo propone un cambio de enfoque respecto al hasta ahora seguido por las autoridades. Con ello, quizá se consiga luchar de manera más eficiente contra esta lacra y en todo caso, al menos se aseguraría un trato más digno y humano a personas que han sufrido en sus carnes el escarnio de no ser consideradas ni tratadas como lo que son, seres humanos.Thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards an uncertain but promising future. In their journey, they are at the mercy of the organized groups who consider them no more than merchandise from which they can obtain a benefit... or two: one from the person or their relatives for reaching the old continent and one from their exploitation. This “use” of them makes the thin line that separates smuggling from the crime of trafficking in human beings blur if not disappear. Given this reality, the article proposes to focus the persecution on the mafias that have made a profit with their exploitation. With this, perhaps it is possible to fight in a more efficient way and in any case, at least a more dignified and humane treatment would be ensured to people who have suffered the scorn of not being considered or treated as what they are, human beings.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1134
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