Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction - David Kyle and Rey Koslowski PART I. Historical and Conceptual Approaches 1 Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered David Kyle and John Dale 2 The Smuggling of Asylum Seekers into Western Europe: Contradictions, Conundrums, and Dilemmas Khalid Koser 3 Pre-Cold War Traffic in Sexual Labor and Its Foes: Some Contemporary Lessons Eileen Scully 4 The Transformation of Migrant Smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican Border Peter Andreas PART II Case Studies: Mexico, Russia, and China 5 Smuggling Migrants through South Texas: Challenges Posed by Operation Rio Grande David Spencer 6 Russian Transnational Organized Crime and Human Trafficking James O. Finckenauer 7 From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration Zai Liang and Wenzhen Ye 8 The Social Organization of Chinese Human Smuggling Ko-Lin Chin 9 Impact of Chinese Human Smuggling on the American Labor Market Peter Kwong PART III The Politics of Human Smuggling 10 The Law at a Crossroads: The Construction of Migrant Women Trafficked into Prostitution Nora V. Demleitner 11 Immigrants, Smuggling, and Threats to Social Order in Japan H. Richard Friman 12 The Sanctioning of Unauthorized Migration and Alien Employment Mark J. Miller 13 Economic Globalization, Human Smuggling, and Global Governance Rey Koslowski List of Contributors Index
Illegal immigration and those who profit from it are topics of great interest to the general public and scholars alike. In this careful scholarly examination of the subject, the authors place the issues in historical and comparative context, examining the emergence of international law and a global moral order of human rights while also exploring the political and economic aspects of the illicit traffic in people. Although the literature on migration is huge, this is the only scholarly book that comprehensively focuses on the topic of human smuggling. -- Chris Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside
David Kyle is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. Rey Koslowski is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University, Newark.
The book's wide comparative breadth, the authors' theoretical sophistication, the up-to-date references and especially the contemporary and intensifying topic of the worldwide political struggle about migration (both legal and illegal), make this book a notable accomplishment... a must-read for all civic-minded citizens, interested scholars and, especially, required reading for politicians. -- Katalin Fabian International Migration Review The book is significant because it challenges and reassesses many widely held views on controversial issues and it should change current thinking on the topic... Stimulating, informative and informed. -- Ronald Skeldon Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2003
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