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The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.

By: Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Doubleday, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiv, 414 p. : map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780385521307 (trade); 0385521308.Subject(s): Human trafficking -- United States | Illegal aliens -- United States | Human smuggling -- United States | United States -- Emigration and immigration | Human trafficking | Illegal aliens -- United States | Smuggling | United States -- Immigration and emigrationDDC classification: 364.1/37/0973
Contents:
Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the great wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother.
Summary: Examines a multimillion-dollar smuggling ring that brought illegal immigrants from China to New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, providing information on the head of the criminal network, Cheng Chui Ping, and describing how she and her associated were finally caught by law enforcement officials.
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Examines a multimillion-dollar smuggling ring that brought illegal immigrants from China to New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, providing information on the head of the criminal network, Cheng Chui Ping, and describing how she and her associated were finally caught by law enforcement officials.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-404) and index.

Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the great wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother.

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