| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 160 pages) : illustrations |
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Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security |
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Transnational crime, crime control and security.
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| Contents |
PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Organized Crime or Illegal Enterprises -- 2. Research on Chinese Underground Banks -- 3. Chinese underground banks in the US-bound Illegal Immigration through Human Smuggling -- PART II: CHINESE UNDERGROUND BANKS IN CHINA AND THE OVERSEAS OPERATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- 4. Historical Background of Chinese Underground Banks: P'iao-hao and Qianzhuang, Old-style Native Banks -- 5. Re-emergence of Chinese Underground Banks in Mainland China: State Policy and the Financial Environment -- 6. Regional Variance in Growth of Underground Banks in Fujian -- 7. Underground Banks in the Migratory Waves in the United States -- PART III: THE MAIN CLIENTELE AND OPERATORS OF UNDERGROUND BANKS -- 8. The Main Clientele of Underground Banks -- 9. Individuals Operating Underground Banks and Operating Style -- PART IV: THE UNDERGROUND BANKS IN U.S.- BOUND ILLEGAL MIGRATION AIDED THROUGH HUMAN SMUGGLING -- 10. The Central Role of Dialect-based Networks -- 11. Illegal Immigrants' Use of Underground Banks -- 12. The Shift Away from the Use of Underground Banks in Remittance Flows -- 13. The Role of Underground Banks in Illegal Migration Aided Through Human Smuggling -- PART V: THE EVOLVING CHANGE OF UNDERGROUND BANKS -- 14. Key Findings -- 15. Practical Implications -- 16. Policy Implications |
| Summary |
Smuggling people into industrialized countries has become a growing industry globally, and Chinese human smuggling represents a significant source of illegal immigration. The financing of the illegal immigration process, however, is a vastly under explored area. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the relationship between informal financial systems, illegal migration and human smuggling, tracing a trajectory of the evolution of Chinese underground banks in the US over the past two decades. With a focus on a border-spanning informal financial system from the perspective of their clients, this book elicits firsthand information from an extremely understudied population illustrating the motivation, patterns, and tendencies of their use of illegal fund transfer systems. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study illuminates the varied experiences of the undocumented Chinese immigrant population, providing revealing insights into the financial element of the migration and settlement process. Alongside discussion of policy implications for law enforcement in the US and China, Zhao explores whether Chinese underground banks represent a key mechanism in the larger social problem of illegal migration aided through human smuggling. Moreover, the book addresses the important question: is the Chinese underground banking system an integral part of organized crime, or is it a new type of ethnic-specific illegal enterprise? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 31, 2018) |
| Subject |
Human smuggling -- New York (State) -- New York
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Banks and banking, Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York
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Organized crime -- China
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Noncitizens -- New York (State) -- New York
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Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Finance
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Illegal immigration -- New York (State) -- New York
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Organized crime -- New York -- China.
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Migration, immigration & emigration -- New York -- China.
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Banking -- New York -- China.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime.
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Illegal immigration
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Banks and banking, Chinese
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Human smuggling
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Noncitizens
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Organized crime
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Organized crime -- New York -- China.
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Migration, immigration & emigration -- New York -- China.
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Banking -- New York -- China.
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Crime.
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China
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New York (State) -- New York
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137290908 |
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1137290900 |
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