Digitization of Migrant Smuggling: Legal and Operational Challenges and Recommendations for Improving the Response in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

This document is the result of a regional research study conducted within the framework of a project implemented in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro from April 2024 to June 2025. The aim of the research was to examine the link between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of migrant smuggling and the normative and institutional responses of states that are parties to the Convention on Cybercrime, as well as their obligations arising from the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants.