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...The journey from Vietnam to London would have cost most of them around £30,000 (924 triệu, gần 1 tỷ đồng); some had sold their family homes (bán nhà) or mortgaged (thế chấp) their land to fund the trip. Others had asked their parents to take out enormous loans (món nợ khổng lồ) to pay the people smugglers (bọn buôn người).

Some of the 39 travelled first to Russia, where they worked for a while, before deciding that they would try to continue onwards to the UK, where they believed they could earn better money in the Vietnamese-run nail bars (làm móng) found in almost every town.

Some flew initially to Germany, Hungary or Romania, their journeys arranged by employment agents who had found them work as fruit pickers (hái hoa quả) or dishwashers (rửa bát) in restaurants. Some flew to Poland, legitimately, on student visas (đi học ở ba lan), with the intention of travelling on to join friends or relatives in the UK once they had saved up enough money to pay for the final leg of the journey. 

...the final crossing (đoạn cuối) to Britain would cost £12,000 (370 triệu đồng).

...Mimi Vu, an independent anti-trafficking and slavery expert based in Vietnam, said the smuggling of people from Vietnam to the UK continued in the months after the tragedy (thảm kịch). “The prices just went up,” she said, basing her observations (quan sát, nhận định) on interviews (phỏng vấn) conducted (tiến hành) with Vietnamese migrants (người di cư) in northern France earlier this year. “It didn’t dampen (làm nguội lạnh, làm nhụt chí) people’s enthusiasm for leaving. People tended to view this as an anomaly (sự không bình thường). They saw the people who died as just very unlucky (rất không may). Smugglers’ marketing tactics changed and they told people they needed to pay more to guarantee the safest passage.”