Dark

Author: Peter
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: This bookfirst-hand materials and research findings. After the "Golden Venture," a ship carrying 286 Chinese illegal immigrants, ran aground at Rockaway Beach in New York following its illegal smuggling in 1993, the author traveled with two American journalists to Fuzhou, Wenzhou, and other areas to interview the families of the victims. The book exposes the horrifying conditions faced by Chinese illegal immigrants during their smuggling journey, the brutal acts of human traffickers who coerce, exploit, torture, and kidnap them, the ever-changing operations of international human trafficking groups; records the experiences of Chinese illegal immigrants settling and surviving in the United States, their plight and helplessness under the exploitation of employers in the gaps of U.S. immigration and labor laws; explores the reasons behind the characteristics of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. workforce and their impact on the U.S. economy; traces the origins and history of the contemporary wave of immigration; analyzes the deep-rooted reasons why illegal immigration persists despite ongoing crackdowns.