Roshida loaded herself and four of her children on to a cramped cargo boat in Myanmar after a broker promised to reunite her with her husband and eldest daughter in Malaysia. But she and more than 100 other migrants instead ended their journey on Thai islands last week, smugglers who panicked because authorities were closing off their longstanding routes. "The broker said, "Tomorrow, we will pick you up says Roshida, 30, at the south Thailand shelter to which she was transferred after being detained by the authorities. "But he never came back." Roshida and the dozens of other women and children at this facility are among the lucky ones the survivors of a deadly trade that has highlighted the plight of the Rohingya people straddling the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh.