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Recent Trends In The Smuggling Of Chinese Into The United States, Jason A. Blatt

Jason A Blatt

Largely based on Chinese-language sources not previously translated into English, this article reveals the newest methods used by human smugglers to bring people from China into the United States. Besides describing where most Chinese migrants come from and conditions fueling illegal migration, this article discusses numerous factors contributing to the rapid expansion of human smuggling networks. Many of these factors, such as the expansion of underground financial networks and the decline of Taiwan’s high seas fishing industry, have not previously been analyzed in such detail. This article argues that the lack of normalized political and economic relations between China and …