Human Smuggling and Closed Borders

The Future of the Asylum Process

Abstract

As the plane circles over London and its wheels come down for landing, a figure falls through the sky. It is the body of a boy, fallen from the wheel arch where he had hidden before the plane took off in India. When the wheel retracted into the undergarriagge, he was crushed to death. Another boy, this time African, suffers a similar fate a month later. The captain of the aircraft asks: How desperate do you have to be to travel like this?