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Chinese human smuggling organizations : families, social networks, and cultural imperatives / Sheldon X. Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Sheldon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--United States.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--United States.
- Illegal immigration.
- Human smuggling.
- United States.
- Human smuggling--United States.
- Human smuggling--China.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- China--Emigration and immigration.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804757416
- 0804757410
- OCLC:
- 156994451
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