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Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations - Families, Social Networks, and Cultural Imperatives (Hardcover)
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Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations - Families, Social Networks, and Cultural Imperatives (Hardcover)
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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 and
women 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 a traditional crime
syndicate.
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