The migrant crisis – why do people risk their lives?

By the end of October, almost 20,000 people had crossed the English Channel this year – more than double the total figure for 2020. But it’s not just journeys by sea that are dangerous. <br /><br />On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we revisit an episode we brought to you after 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex. We are joined by Sky correspondents Siobhan Robbins and Martin Brunt along with Dr Tamsin Barber, a senior lecturer in sociology at Oxford Brookes University.<br /><br />Daily podcast team:<br />Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce<br />Podcast producer – Rosie Gillott <br />Interviews producer – Tatiana Alderson<br />Archive - Simon Windsor<br />Archive – Nelly Stefanova <br />Archive – Rob Fellowes<br />Music - Steven Wheeler