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The pull
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The pull

— Nov 2016 1 Season 1 Episodes
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Overview

Can you love a human trafficker? Is migration the problem? Or is migration the solution? What happens to migrants after they're deported from the Netherlands? And does Africa also have anti-foreigner populists like Donald Trump or Geert Wilders? In "De Trek," correspondent Bram Vermeulen travels across the African continent to speak with key figures rarely heard in the migration debate. Human traffickers, drowning victims, deportees, and African foreigner-haters. From South Africa to Nigeria, from Niger to Senegal. Four countries, four key figures.

Created by Bram Vermeulen
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Dutch

Cast

Bram Vermeulen

Bram Vermeulen

E1

The smuggler

Agadez, Niger, is the human trafficking capital of West Africa. The smuggling appears to operate according to a strict timetable, familiar to everyone: migrants, smugglers, police, and the army.

Nov 6, 2016
E2

The xenophobe

Even in South Africa, not everyone welcomes newcomers. Bram Vermeulen investigates the murder of a Mozambican migrant worker in the township of Alexandra, South Africa, and the role of an angry king.

Nov 13, 2016
E3

The drowning person

On April 18, 2015, more than 700 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Many of them came from a village in eastern Senegal. Why did they have to leave, when there was no war?

Nov 20, 2016
E4

The deportee

Bram Vermeulen travels to Nigeria to find a mother with four school-aged children who have just been deported from the Netherlands. Will they survive in Lagos?

Nov 27, 2016

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