Why are so many Vietnamese people trafficked?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The country was shocked when 39 people were found suffocated in the back of a lorry on an industrial park in Essex last October. The discovery that the victims were economic migrants sparked a conversation about the scale of human trafficking in the UK. Vietnamese people are among the most trafficked people in Britain and many of those smuggled here end up in modern slavery; working on cannabis farms, in brothels and nail bars. In this episode we speak to investigative reporter Cat McShane, who introduces us to Ba, a teenager captured, tortured and forced to work in a cannabis farm in the north of England. We also speak to the Guardian’s Amelia Gentleman, who tells us about her experience of going on a police raid of a suspected illegal nail bar. Producers: Lucy Hancock and Duncan Barber Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.0	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, where we ask one big question about one big story every day.
0:14.0	Today, why are so many Vietnamese people being trafficked?
0:27.0	Do you remember that story about the 39 people who died when they were trafficked into England?
0:37.0	A murder inquiry has begun in Essex after the bodies of 39 people, one of them a teenager, were found in a lorry container.
0:45.6	The driver...
0:46.6	The driver...
0:47.6	Essex...
0:48.6	The container had crossed the English Channel from the Belgian port of Zabrogga police say they can't rule out the
0:55.1	involvement of organized crime gangs. Now at first nobody knew where they came
0:59.4	from. We don't know exactly the nationality of our individuals.
1:04.0	China maybe the police wondered.
1:06.7	In the end it turned out all 39 were Vietnamese and they died in the most horrific way. They were found in the back of a trailer in an
1:14.6	industrial park in Essex last October. It's not often the
1:21.4	subterranean world of people smuggling and human trafficking is dragged into the spotlight,
1:27.0	but trafficked people are working here and arriving here all the time.
1:32.0	Kat McShane's been looking into why so many Vietnamese people are trafficked into the country.
1:38.0	And the story she's going to tell us starts with a guy called Barr. He's an 18 year old Vietnamese boy. He was found
1:46.3	wandering, confused and scared around a train station in the north of England.
1:51.2	He's now with foster parents and he'd been trafficked into the UK after being orphaned.
1:57.0	Bar's parents both died in a fishing accident. That's what they did. They caught and
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