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En route to the United Kingdom

A field survey of vietnamese migrants

En route to the United KingdomLes Cahiers du social
Thi Hiep NGUYEN et Danielle TAN
IRASEC et France terre d’asile, Ivry sur seine
mars 2017, 122 p.
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France terre d’asile has realised a field survey of vitenamese migrants in transit in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the context of an innovative project conducted by France terre d’asile between the 1st November 2015 and the 30th April 2017, entitled “assistance project for victims of human trafficking”, a project to identify, inform and advise victims of human trafficking in the department of Pas-de-Calais.

The study is aiming in particular to better understand their migration routes, their reasons for leaving their home country, their profiles, their relations with smugglers’ networks, the methods of control and coercion exer-cised over the migrants, as well as the migrants’ needs in order to be able to improve the support provided to them in France and Europe.

 
Table of contents

Context of the study
Overview
Acronyms
Introduction

 
01 - Who are they ? Profiles, motivations and migration routes

From political refugees to economic migrants : the new face of Vietnamese migration

  • The end of the Vietnam War and the exile of the boat people
  • The new wave of Vietnamese migration
  • The dream of a better life
  • From dreams to harsh reality : the cannabis trap

The flows of Vietnamese migration

  • The importance of international migration to the Vietnamese economy
  • High internal migration levels

Migration routes

  • The journey through Russia, Belarus, Poland, Paris, Angres/Calais
  • Calais, an increasingly costly and difficult crossing
  • The Vietnamese migrants of the former communist block
  • Paris, a transitory stage that becomes long-term

 
02 - The situation of the Vietnamese migrants in transit on the Channel’s French coastline

The invisibility strategy of the Vietnamese migrants

  • The upstream crossing : the Angres hub — “Vietnam City”
  • The role of the “smugglers”

Vietnamese migrants living on the fringes

  • Téteghem
  • The camps of Basroch and La Linière in Grande-Synthe

 
03 - Identification of the vulnerability factors and possible support approaches

The principal vulnerability factors specific to Vietnamese migrants

  • A rigid international legal framework
  • The vulnerability factors
  • The “grey areas”

Possible support measures for victims

  • The problems of addressing the problem of trafficking in France
  • From trafficking to modern slavery : terminology issues
  • The British model : a possible source of inspiration for France ?

 

Conclusion

Bibliography
Annex 1 : List of interviews
Annex 2 : Interview table

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