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Disappearances of Illegal Migrants in the Context of Human Trafficking – Theological Approach

often reduced to two opposing approaches concerning migrants. One that observes the phenomenon of migration within security issue categories, interpreting migrants in the light of a threat to national security, and the other that unreservedly supports migration, encourages it, and sometimes practically supports the migrants themselves in illegally crossing state borders. Unfortunately, within both approaches, there has been no serious interdisciplinary discussion about the increasingly widespread phenomenon of migrant disappearances, especially in the context of human trafficking. In cases where discussion is present, it is usually reduced to the instrumentalization of individual cases of questionable authenticity for the purpose of publicly delegitimizing the legitimate surveillance of state borders. To draw attention to the problem of the disappearance of illegal migrants and the connected human trafficking and to contribute to its solution, in the first part of the paper, we will present the phenomenon of the disappearance of illegal migrants in the context of human trafficking. In the second part, in light of the Church’s social teachings, we will talk about the theological and ethical importance of contemporary migrations and the fate of illegal migrants. In the third and final part, we will propose a path toward a comprehensive solution and the corresponding role of the Church in the matter.

migration ; migrants ; the disappearance of migrants ; illegal migration ; human trafficking ; signs of the times ; the social teaching of the Church

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