The wild crime of human trafficking and migrant smuggling
One Way Trip From Home: A new channel to subscribe and follow.
Occasionally during wildlife investigations you’ll come across other crime types, something often referred to as ‘convergence crime’. For instance, drug traffickers might also be smuggling shark fin or illegally harvested timber through their same supply channels. Or fraudsters and money launderers are using their remittance services for illegal wildlife transactions.
But sometimes you’ll come across the more hideous of crimes; human trafficking or modern day slavery.
Such convergence has occurred in cases in which hunters were forced to poach for their freedom. It is often the case in illegal fishing ventures in which unwitting workers are forced to stay at sea until their debt is paid off.
There are many complexities to investigating the crime of trafficking in persons or smuggling in migrants. Which is why sometimes, at a minimum, all you can do is amplify the stories and give victims, or survivors, a voice.
So I’m working with a survivor turned advocate from Ghana, Missi Resilience, to help achieve this objective with the aim to save future victims by awareness. It’s called One Way Trip From Home and you can learn more about this new Substack channel through Missi’s own words:
This is going to be an incredibly important endeavour as Missi presents first hand accounts from survivors of human trafficking and modern day slavery. I will be looking to contribute in time from an investigative perspective, however for now it’s important to listen to these compelling, and often harrowing, testimonies.
I encourage you to subscribe to One Way Trip From Home and consider becoming a paid subscriber for the monthly cost of a coffee as this will help Missi and myself, and whoever else wants to contribute, deliver more quality led stories and information.
There are more ideas down the pipeline on how to enhance this “Force” and also directly help other survivors. But for now this is where it begins. Please join and share amongst your network of co-workers, friends and family.
Stay wild.