Britain's Modern Slave Trade - Explainer - Al Jazeera Investigates

Modern mass migration has created a new form of slave trade. People smugglers are enriching themselves from the Far East moving people through China, Central Asia, and Russia. From Africa Libya is a major transit point, but the journey across the Mediterranean poses more hazards. What is known as the "grass hoping process" involves migrants hiding on trucks. The danger is that people can fall into the hands of human traffickers. Migrants could be enslaved in the sex trade, car washes, or cannabis farms in the UK. The enslaved could even work on commercial farms, coffee shops and construction sites.Modern slavery is the product of imperialism, military intervention, and the avarice of the neoliberal capitalist system. Europe which now presents a myth of being a champion of humanitarianism is now changing its immigration policies. A new wave of racial hate is being directed at they very people who's homelands were destroyed as a result of war.