Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
Volume 5, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 634-647

Peculiarities of illegal immigrant’s intrusions into road freight transport units in the France - UK corridor (Article) (Open Access)

Lietuvnikė M.M. , Vasilis Vasiliauskas A. , Vasilienė-Vasiliauskienė V. , Sabaitytė J.
  • a Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 11 Saulėtekio al., Vilnius, LT-10223, Lithuania
  • b General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, Logistics and Transport Management Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 11 Saulėtekio al., Vilnius, LT-10223, Lithuania
  • c Logistics and Transport Management Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 11 Saulėtekio al., Vilnius, LT-10223, Lithuania
  • d Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Business Technologies and Enterpreneurship Department, Ingeneering Management Department, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, 11 Saulėtekio al., Vilnius, LT-10223, Lithuania

Abstract

The World Economic Crisis has increased such processes as poverty, discrimination and war. As a consequence, many people from Africa, Middle East and Asia started to immigrate to Europe. There were over one million unauthorized immigrants entering Europe in 2015. However, not all countries want and can accept refugees. A long-time frame for assessing asylum applications or frequent rejections encourages refugees to migrate illegally by intruding freight transport units to cross the border of their chosen European country. The intrusion of illegal immigrants into road freight units to cross borders without being noticed has caused a great deal of damage to the international freight transportation companies. This article presents results of the study aimed at investigation of peculiarities of illegal immigrant’s intrusions into road freight transport units moving along the corridor France – United Kingdom. © 2018 by author(s) and VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center.

Author Keywords

Road freight transport Road freight transport risks Human factor Illegal immigrants European migrant crisis Refugees

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045006160&doi=10.9770%2fjesi.2018.5.3%2816%29&partnerID=40&md5=84648166963be19919d9589cbb573dea
DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2018.5.3(16)
ISSN: 23450282
Cited by: 9
Original Language: English