Description |
xxi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index. |
Contents |
Coming to America : illegal Chinese migration to the United States -- Becoming a snakehead -- Recruitment, preparation, and departure -- Smuggling activities in transit -- Arrival and payment collection in America -- Making money from human smuggling -- Organizational and operational characteristics -- The dyadic cartwheel network -- Human smuggling and traditional Chinese organized crime -- Women and Chinese human smuggling -- The future of Chinese human smuggling. |
Summary |
"Based on years of fieldwork and interviews with 129 human smugglers as well as scores of government and law enforcement officials, this book presents a rare look into the secretive world of the "snakeheads" (human smugglers), whose ingenious endeavors have transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the United States and other Western countries." "The book is rich with vivid accounts of how groups of opportunistic entrepreneurs form loosely connected social circles to accomplish seemingly complex transnational negotiations. Zhang's findings and analyses challenge many widespread misconceptions about these smugglers in particular and Chinese organized crime in general. Bound together by little more than the pursuit of profit, these otherwise ordinary men have demonstrated remarkable flexibility in adapting to market and socio-legal constraints." "The author's concept of the "dyadic cartwheel network" integrates major theoretical constructs to explain how and why freelance operators have come to dominate the human smuggling enterprise instead of traditional crime syndicate."--Jacket. |
Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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China -- Emigration and immigration.
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Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- United States.
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Subject |
Noncitizens -- United States.
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Human smuggling -- China.
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Human smuggling -- United States.
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Illegal immigration -- United States.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Undocumented immigrants.
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Human smuggling. (OCoLC)fst00963471
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Other Form: |
Online version: Zhang, Sheldon. Chinese human smuggling organizations. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)607893790 |
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Online version: Zhang, Sheldon. Chinese human smuggling organizations. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)609298721 |
ISBN |
9780804757416 (alk. paper) |
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0804757410 (alk. paper) |
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