Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and The Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition (Significant Issues Series) (Csis Significant Issues Series) - Softcover

9780892062911: Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and The Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition (Significant Issues Series) (Csis Significant Issues Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892062916 ISBN 13: 9780892062911

Publisher: Center for Strategic & Intl studies, 1997

Four years after the smuggling ship Golden Venture, carrying nearly 300 Chinese migrants, ran aground off Queens, New York. Chinese migrant trafficking into the United States persists. This illegal immigration is organized by highly effective alien smuggling organizations using routes involving more than 30 countries and earning hundreds of millions of dollars. The authors of this volume examine the roots and logistics of this growth industry as well as the "push" and "pull" factors - such as unemployment and population pressures - that are fueling the Chinese exodus to the land known as the "Beautiful Country".

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