Two Big Risks of Forced Migrations: Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons

By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Beatriz García Nice

  Forced migration or forced displacement continues to relocate millions of people around the world. The category includes refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons, and it is a direct result of persecution, conflict, other events seriously disturbing public order, and generalized human rights violations. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 82.4 million people are currently forcibly displaced—more than twice the number of people as a decade ago. Of those, women and girls make up 50 percent of displaced populations; they are, in general, at a higher risk of violence.  

Washington, DC: Wilson Center, 2021. 9p.