Tacik, Przemysław, juhendajaLinsenmaier, Thomas, juhendajaEl Hindi, WiamTartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkondTartu Ülikool. Johan Skytte poliitikauuringute instituut2025-06-122025-06-122025https://hdl.handle.net/10062/111233Human trafficking has emerged as one of the most lucrative crimes in recent history, making it a serious security threat to the state and individuals. As a country deeply affected by this phenomenon, Poland has established a system encompassing national strategies, a legal framework and has ratified various international acts to curb it. The system, however, remains ineffective. This research aims to examine why the Polish system is ineffective, despite continued efforts and previous success by Poland to prevent human trafficking, starting from 2019 until 2023. More specifically, it analyses two main factors, the securitization of trafficking as a national security threat and the deliberate non-compliance with international agreements, as response-level factors impacting the way the responses are established negatively, rendering them ineffective. Through a conducted qualitative content analysis using various primary and secondary sources, this thesis analysed the Polish anti-trafficking system between 2019 and 2023, its areas of ineffectiveness focusing on protection, prosecution and prevention measures, and how the factors established previously are responsible for this ineffectiveness. It has been concluded that the securitization of human trafficking under a national security approach and the deliberate non-compliance of the Polish government with international standards are significant factors responsible for the establishment of ineffective responses to curb human trafficking. The securitization of human trafficking by the Polish state led to the establishment of policy and legal responses undermining the security of victims at the expense of national agendas. Similarly, the state’s continuous non-compliance instances with established international legal regulations resulted in an ineffective judicial system undermining both prosecution and protection measures of Polish anti-trafficking responses. As a result, these factors are extremely important when it comes to understanding why the anti-HT Polish system remains ineffective as they influence and shape the system and how the responses are established.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Estoniahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/magistritöödinimkaubandusohvridriiklik julgeolekefektiivsusrahvusvahelised lepingudkohtusüsteemidPoola (riik)Thesis