Ah yes in the end, we’re all just chinks to them aren’t we? People were ready to pounce on China with this story, with wildly false claims like; they were uyghurs, or HK dissidents, or democracy activists seeking asylum. Well? They were mostly if not all Vietnamese.
Second, human trafficking in the west has a character. It was very likely these people would have ended up in medial, under the table, undocumented labor. Restaurants, housekeeping, or worse. Whoever in england paid the smugglers to bring them over didn’t get their cheap laborers
Third, imperialism is implicit here. The taking of people, through trickery, which often is the case, to work in menial jobs in the west framed as “opportunity” has been the norm for most human tracking cases in the imperial core. Vietnam is still a recovering, devloping country.
When you still haven’t recovered fully from a genocidal war, when you bear the scars of european and americkan bombs and sanctions, when global capital distorts your ability to develop on your own terms, some people will want to leave seeking “opportunity” elsewhere.
Just as Colombians and Ecuadoreans leave home because the US has destroyed their local economies, Vietnamese and SE Asians still sometimes make their way abroad for the same reasons. Sometimes the ‘famed’ UK is one of those destinations.
And who are the first types of people eager to catch those thinking of leaving? Human traffickers and their clients in the west. And those clients? Hotel staff managers, restauranteurs, human resource managers at staffing firms, gig app companies, and yes, pimps.
To these people who died, it was a chance at a better life. But we know from our experience in the diaspora that these are empty promises. To the people paying to bring them over, they would have been another body to abuse, to order around, to beat if they don’t work hard enough.
And that’s often if not generally the case for people being trafficked into the west. They are never brought over without any conditions for employment, for servitude. To housekeep for some white british family, to nurse some white baby, to clean some else’s house.
With no protections, no rights, and no voice except their own. Human trafficking is a product of human commodification under capitalism-imperialism. And its the every day life for millions of undocumented asian diaspora in the west.
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Enjoying this thread?

Keep Current with Socialist With SE Asian Diaspora Characteristics

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!