Global human smuggling : comparative perspectives / edited by David Kyle and Rey Koslowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kyle, David.

Koslowski, Rey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration.

Smuggling.

Transnational crime.

Organized crime.

Physical Description:

x, 402 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Ten years ago the topic of human smuggling and trafficking was relatively new for academic researchers, though the practice itself is very old. Since the first edition of this volume was published, much has changed globally, directly impacting the phenomenon of human smuggling. Migrant smuggling and human trafficking are now more entrenched than ever in many regions, with efforts to combat them both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. This book explores human smuggling in several forms and regions, globally examining its deep historic, social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences.

Contributors to the updated and expanded edition consider the trends and events of the past several years, especially in light of developments after 9/11 and the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They also reflect on the moral economy of human smuggling and trafficking, the increasing percentage of the world's asylum seekers who escape political violence only by being smuggled, and the implications of human smuggling in a warming world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Global Comparative Perspective

1 Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered / David Kyle Kyle, David, John Dale Dale, John 33

2 Economic Globalization, Human Smuggling, and Global Governance / Rey Koslowski Koslowski, Rey 60

Part II Historical Perspective

3 Trafficking Human Subjects in the Malay World, 1850-1910 / Eric Tagliacozzo Tagliacozzo, Eric 87

4 Pre-Cold War Traffic in Sexual Labor and Its Foes: Some Contemporary Lessons / Eileen P. Scully Scully, Eileen P. 108

Part III Smuggling from Mexico and China

5 The Transformation of Migrant Smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican Border / Peter Andreas Andreas, Peter 139

6 Global Apartheid, Coyotaje, and the Discourse of Clandestine Migration: Distinctions between Personal, Structural, and Cultural Violence / David Spener Spener, David 157

7 The Social Organization of Chinese Human Smuggling / Ko-Lin Chin Chin, Ko-Lin 186

8 From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration / Zai Liang Liang, Zai, Wenzhen Ye Ye, Wenzhen 204

Part IV The Many Dimensions of Human Smuggling and Trafficking

9 Have Documents, Will Travel / Kamal Sadiq Sadiq, Kamal 233

10 The Smuggling of Refugees / Khalid Koser Koser, Khalid 256

11 Uncovering the Legal Cachet of Labor Migration to Israel / Barak Kalir Kalir, Barak 273

12 Russian Transnational Organized Crime and Human Trafficking / James O. Finckenauer Finckenauer, James O. 305

13 Migrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan / H. Richard Friman Friman, H. Richard 325

14 The Law at a Crossroads: The Construction of Migrant Women Trafficked into Prostitution / Nora V. Demleitner Demleitner, Nora V. 352.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421401980

1421401983

OCLC:

698029388