People Smuggling: How It Works, Who Benefits and How It Can Be Stopped

Source: The GuardianMigrants who risk all in search of a better life are easy prey for people smugglers, whose unscrupulous activities have created a criminal industry worth billions. One of the most distressing elements of the worldwide migrant crisis is that people who have risked all for a better life should be held to ransom by smugglers. The lines between migration and human trafficking all too easily converge. While migration implies a level of individual...