| Description |
xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index. |
| Contents |
The pig trade: the contemporary version -- Going to America -- Snakeheads -- The limits of kinship networks -- Manufacturing ethnicity -- The exclusion of Chinese labor -- Ineffectual enforcement of immigration and labor law -- Waiting for organized labor -- The undocumented immigrant as part of American labor. |
| Summary |
Forbidden Workers tells the full story of recent Chinese immigration to this country. Author Peter Kwong has interviewed countless workers, activists, Chinatown powerbrokers, and "snakeheads" (smugglers who bring immigrants to the United States) and has traveled to China to talk with families of immigrants. The result is an unprecedented look at an invisible community within American society - and at a billion-dollar industry whose commodity is workers who labor in conditions approaching modern slavery. |
| Local Subject |
Undocumented immigration -- United States.
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| Subject |
Foreign workers, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst01729121
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Noncitizens -- United States.
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Foreign workers, Chinese -- United States.
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Illegal immigration -- United States.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
156584355X (hardcover) |
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9781565843554 (hardcover) |
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156584517X (paperback) |
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9781565845176 (paperback) |
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