The Snakehead : An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Paperback)

from bcquinnsmom

According to the author, a "snakehead" is someone who charges a huge amount of money to "take people out of China and into other countries." This book focuses on one of these people, Sister Ping, who came to the US legally and then proceeded to cash in on every opportunity she could, including sm...

from rivkat

Centered around the ill-fated Golden Venture, this is a story about the desire to immigrate and the willingness of people to profit from that desire, despite both illegality and substantial material risks-most notably to those being smuggled into the U.S. Keefe comes off as highly sympathetic to ...

from RandyStafford

On June 6, 1993, the ship Golden Venture ran aground off Long Island, New York. Inside were more than 300 illegal Chinese immigrants. Five didn't survive their swim through rough seas to get to shore. It was a high profile case of human smuggling, and someone, it was decided, had to pay for the r...

from br13pewe

"The SnakeHead" by Patrick Radden Keefe is a profoundly detailed novel about the issue of human smuggling in America. The people being smuggled in the early 90's were chinese people from the Fujan Province. These "Fooks," as the local New York Policemen called them, came to America with little mo...

from bcquinnsmom

According to the author, a "snakehead" is someone who charges a huge amount of money to "take people out of China and into other countries." This book focuses on one of these people, Sister Ping, who came to the US legally and then proceeded to cash in on every opportunity she could, including sm...