Search results
Patrick Radden Keefe’s The Snakehead is a sprawling chronicle that examines the complex route taken by Chinese entering the United States illegally as clients of the professional human smugglers...
1 lis 2021 · Summary. The underground rule of illegal immigration in New York’s Chinatown run by a middle-aged grandmother with no education from Fujian Province, China. Develops into a full portrait of the immigration experience from the 70s-90s in the United States, mostly from the perspective of the Fukinese people coming over. Strong recommend.
15 lip 2009 · This book explores the history of Chinese immigration to America and how in the 1980s and early 1990s lucrative smuggling rings, known as the snakehead trade, brought thousands of illegal immigrants into the USA.
21 lip 2009 · Let’s start with a summary of some of the book’s central themes. The title of the book is taken from the colloquial use of the word snake to refer to a “circuitous smuggling route.”
Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.
28 sie 2009 · Keefe captures the ultimate story of the American Dream by exploring the mind-boggling events that led to the tragedy of the Golden Venture, a leaky vessel carrying some 300 undocumented Chinese aliens that crashed on the shores of Rockaway Beach off new York’s Long Island in June 1993.
12 lut 2023 · The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe: A timely, powerful read. Book details the flight of undocumented Chinese migrants to the US in the 1990s. Expand. A fishing boat in Hong Kong territorial...
