Migration policies of Western European governments and the fight against organised crime in SEE

The underlying cause for the continued growth of organized crime in southeast Europe lies in high rates of unemployment, stagnant legitimate economies and the failure of either domestic or international political actors to have any significant impact on the economic situation in southeast European countries. This article contends that immigration into the EU, and more specifically access to the labour markets of the EU for citizens of southeast Europe and the western Balkans in particular, may be an answer to the problem of organized crime by curtailing the Balkan mafias' access to its key resource – labour

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · European union · Illegal immigration · Immigration · International trade · Organised crime · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition