ARMEN ASATRYAN

Head of Department of Operative Activity Support of the

National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, Colonel Lieutenant,

Solicitor of the Chair of Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2024.1-3-69

Annotation.

Combating against irregular and illegal migration in the state management of migration of the Republic of Armenia has always been emphasized, focusing heavily on the reduction of irregular migration originating from Armenia, the requirement to execute the issue to study such phenomenon and make suggestions for its prevention was included in the list of priority issues. The inclusion of the issues regarding irregular migration in the list of priority issues hereby proves the importance of combating against this phenomenon for our State and society. In order to implement this problem, a number of measures promoting legal migration were implemented in Armenia, and in 2014 the organization of illegal migration was criminalized which is considered a criminal offense under the Criminal Codes of most States, especially when along with the increase in immigration flows in Armenia, the risks of illegal and irregular influx, residence and work of foreigners have also increased. This article will refer to the legal grounds for traveling to another country, the existing legislative regulations in the Republic of Armenia in this regard, a number of concepts related to illegal migration, the definitions given by the International Organization for Migration, the grounds of the migrant’s criminal responsibility, the legal assessments given to the migrant’s acts in law enforcement practice, the existing measures aimed at achieving the latter’s criminal responsibility and etc. As a result, the author proposed a new solution among the currently implemented ones regarding the legal assessment of the migrant’s act.

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