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x, 374 pages : 24 cm 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 Chin

Who reads Global Human Smuggling : Comparative Perspectives?

Author

David Kyle - undifferentiated, Rey Koslowski

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801865909

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, True Crime