How does migrant smuggling differ from trafficking in human beings?

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Facilitating unauthorised entry across a border; trafficking concerns exploitation and can occur without crossing a border.

The UN migrant-smuggling definition includes financial or material benefit. EU facilitation law has its own elements; check the applicable instrument rather than assuming every definition is identical.

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How does migrant smuggling differ from trafficking in human beings?

Facilitating unauthorised entry across a border; trafficking concerns exploitation and can occur without crossing a border.

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