Happy 2018! On this episode (the last one recorded in 2017) we speak with Sarah (sarahadeyinka.com) a humanitarian worker who works with migrants and victims of trafficking. She tells us about her experience working with Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) rescuing migrant boats in international waters. We talk about our understanding of trafficking, explore the motivations of migrants, unpack some (Nigerian) cultural norms that can be inhumane, and discuss the Libyan slave markets and factors that contributed to their presence.

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Resources

http://www.msf.org/en/article/libya-open-letter-european-governments-are-feeding-business-suffering

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-malta-summit-leaders-warn-strand-thousands-refugees-libya-deal-concentration-camps-crisis-a7560956.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/refugee-crisis-migrants-libya-europe-eu-italy-abuse-torture-slavery-forced-labour-iom-report-msf-a7366361.html

http://www.sarahadeyinka.com/?p=424

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/14/nigerian-girls-young-13-increasingly-trafficked-italy-work-street/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/07/italy-investigating-deaths-of-nigerian-women-thought-to-have-been-murdered

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/07/nigeria-trafficking-women-prostitutes-italy

My Family’s Slave (account of Filipino immigrant family with domestic worker slave) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

This American Life episode about Eritrean migrants trapped in Sinai dessert https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/502/this-call-may-be-recorded-to-save-your-life

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Listening to

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s Ella & Louis Christmas (Album)

Travis Greene’s Crossover (Album)

Pentatonix’ Christmas albums

Michael Bublé’s Chrirstmas (Album)

BuzzFeed’s Thirst Aid Kit (Podcast)

Reading

Alyssa Cole’s An Extraordinary Union

Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness

Watching

Orphan Black’s Final Season (TV Show)