Global Human Smuggling Comparative Perspectives

Name: Global Human Smuggling Comparative Perspectives
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ISBN: 9781421401980

ISBN-10: 1421401983

ISBN-13: 9781421401980

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: David Kyle, Rey Koslowski

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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 both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. This book explores the global dimensions of human smuggling in several forms and regions, examining its deep historic, social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences. Contributors to the updated and expanded edition consider…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Introduction




The Global Comparative Perspective



Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered




Economic Globalization, Human Smuggling, and Global Governance




Historical Perspective



Trafficking Human Subjects in the Malay World, 1850-1910




Pre-Cold War Traffic in Sexual Labor and Its Foes: Some Contemporary Lessons




Smuggling from Mexico and China



The Transformation of Migrant Smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican Border




Global Apartheid, Coyotaje, and the Discourse of Clandestine Migration: Distinctions between Personal, Structural, and Cultural Violence




The Social Organization of Chinese Human Smuggling




From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration




The Many Dimensions of Human Smuggling and Trafficking



Have Documents, Will Travel




The Smuggling of Refugees




Uncovering the Legal Cachet of Labor Migration to Israel




Russian Transnational Organized Crime and Human Trafficking




Migrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan




The Law at a Crossroads: The Construction of Migrant Women Trafficked into Prostitution



List of Contributors


Index