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 them both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. This book explores human smuggling in several forms and regions, globally examining its deep historic, social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences. Contributors to the updated and expanded edition consider the trends and events of the past several years, especially in light of developments after 9/11 and the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They also reflect on the moral economy of human smuggling and trafficking, the increasing percentage of the world's asylum seekers who escape political violence only by being smuggled, and the implications of human smuggling in a warming world.
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Part I: The Global Comparative Perspective
Chapter 1. Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered
Chapter 2. Economic Globalization, Human Smuggling, and Global Governance
Part II: Historical Perspective
Chapter 3. Trafficking Human Subjects in the Malay World, 1850-1910
Chapter 4. Pre-Cold War Traffi c in Sexual Labor and Its Foes: Some Contemporary Lessons
Part III: Smuggling from Mexico and China
Chapter 5. The Transformation of Migrant Smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican Border
Chapter 6. Global Apartheid, Coyotaje, and the Discourse of Clandestine Migration: Distinctions between Personal, Structural, and Cultural Violence
Chapter 7. The Social Organization of Chinese Human Smuggling
Chapter 8. From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration
Part IV: The Many Dimensions of Human Smuggling and Trafficking
Chapter 9. Have Documents, Will Travel
Chapter 10. The Smuggling of Refugees
Chapter 11. Uncovering the Legal Cachet of Labor Migration to Israel
Chapter 12. Russian Transnational Organized Crime and Human Trafficking
Chapter 13. Migrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan
Chapter 14. The Law at a Crossroads: The Construction of Migrant Women Trafficked into Prostitution
List of Contributors
Index
