Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]
• ©2001

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Additional Authors

• Kyle, David, 1960-
• Koslowski, Rey.

Description

x, 374 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

During the past decade, human smuggling across national borders grew from a low-level border crossing activity in a handful of countries to a diverse multibillion dollar business spanning the entire globe. New laws in several states, the creation and expansion of new enforcement and management agencies with enormous budgets, and multilateral programs around the world are currently being developed to combat human smuggling. But how well do we understand it? This volume explores the global dimensions of human smuggling in several forms and regions, examining its deep social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences. Part I discusses the sociohistorical context and contemporary diversity of human smuggling of migrants, asylum-seekers, and those who are tricked into slavery, including the conflicting role of states and corrupt state officials as contributing to the problem. In Part II, the authors present high profile case studies that include U.S.-Mexican border smuggling, the international business of trafficking women from the former Soviet Union, and the origins and social organization of human smuggling as a global business from China and Southeast Asia. In Part III, contributors examine the politics of human smuggling, looking more closely at the legal construction of victimized women trafficked into slavery, the social construction of smuggled immigrants as threats to the social order, and the sanctioning of unauthorized employment of illegal immigrants.

Subjects

• Organisiertes Verbrechen
• Menschenhandel
• Illegaler Einwanderer
• Internationale Kriminalität
• Illegale Einwanderung
• Transnational crime
• Organized crime
• Human smuggling
• Emigration and immigration
• Noncitizens
• Smuggling
• migrations (events)
• Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
• emigration
• immigration
• Undocumented Immigrants
• Emigration and Immigration
• Human trafficking
• Crime organisé
• Contrebande
• Immigrés clandestins
• Undocumented immigrants
• Internationale criminaliteit
• Politieke vluchtelingen
• Georganiseerde misdaad
• Mensenhandel
• Illegale buitenlanders
• 71.65 criminality as a social problem
• Newark <Del., 1998>

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Smuggling the state back in : agents of human smuggling reconsidered / David Kyle and John Dale -- The smuggling of asylum seekers into western Europe : contradictions, conundrums, and dilemmas / Khalid Koser -- Pre-Cold War traffic in sexual labor and its foes : some contemporary lessons / Eileen Scully -- The transformation of migrant smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican border / Peter Andreas -- Smuggling migrants through south Texas : challenges posed by Operation Rio Grande / David Spener -- Russian transnational organized crime and human trafficking / James O. Finckenauer -- From Fujian to New York : understanding the new Chinese immigration / Zai Liang and Wenzhen Ye -- The social organization of Chinese human smuggling / Ko-Lin Chin -- Impact of Chinese human smuggling on the American labor market / Peter Kwong -- The law at a crossroads : the construction of migrant women trafficked into prostitution / Nora V. Demleitner -- Immigrants, smuggling, and threats to social order in Japan / H. Richard Friman -- The sanctioning of unauthorized migration and alien employment / Mark J. Miller -- Economic globalization, human smuggling, and global governance / Rey Koslowski.

ISBN

• 0801865891
• 9780801865893
• 0801865905
• 9780801865909

LCCN

00011294

OCLC

• ocm45002080
• 45002080
• SCSB-1234602

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library