Social justice and illegal immigration in Algeria: The limits of engagement and the level of its impact on Host countries

Abstract

The effectiveness of fighting crimes is often based on the level of the criminal policy set by the government. However, things are different as far as the illegal immigration crimes in Algeria are concerned. Although the criminal policy’s tools are influential in the fight against illegal immigration, its relation to the level of development, disparities in income distribution, employment opportunities and the spread of poverty is far more influential in this operation. This crime is specific in comparison to the other crimes, whether in terms of the nature of the culprit who possesses no criminal factors as in murder and beating, or in terms of the nature of his objectives, which are legitimate for they reflect the rights he lost in his home country, and thrives to regain in the host countries.

  Therefore, we observe the link between the level of social justice and the growing levels of illegal immigration crimes in Algeria, on the one hand, and the impact of these crimes on the levels of social justice in the host countries on the other hand. This fuels our research endeavor to determine the levels of this correlation in the light of a number of social justice indicators. The present research showed that the more Algeria established positive indicators for the existence of social justice, the lower illegal immigration rates are. And the higher the level of illegal immigration crimes is in the host countries, the lower the level of social justice pre-existing the beginning of immigration get.