← The pull

Season 1

4 episodes · 2016

  1. 1The smuggler

    06 Nov 2016

    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.

  2. 2The xenophobe

    13 Nov 2016

    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.

  3. 3The drowning person

    20 Nov 2016

    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?

  4. 4The deportee

    27 Nov 2016

    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?