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Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a must-read,” Forbidden Workers tells for the first time the full story of recent Chinese immigration to this country. Widely praised from the Wall Street Journal to Asian Week, the book uses the Chinese experience to shed light on broader issues of immigration from countries around the world. Author Peter Kwong has interviewed countless immigrant workers, activists, Chinatown powerbrokers, and “snakeheads” (smugglers who bring immigrants to the United States) and has traveled to China to talk with families of immigrants. The result is an unprecedented look at an invisible community within American society—and at a billion-dollar industry whose commodity is workers who labor under conditions approaching modern slavery.
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"Forbidden Workers is destined to become a classic." —The Wall Street Journal
"An honest look at an appalling situation." —Kirkus Reviews
"A provocative and alarming book that should appeal to a wide audience." —Library Journal
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Presenting an account of recent illegal Chinese immigration to the USA, this book is based on research into immigration patterns over the last two centuries, and on interviews with many workers, activists, Chinatown power-brokers, and "snakeheads" - smugglers who get people into the country illegally. The author also travelled to China to talk to families of immigrants. From the villages of Fuzhou province in mainland China to the restaurants and garment factories of New York City's and San Francisco's Chinatown, Peter Kwong traces immigrants' lives and identifies contradictions in US immigration and labour policies. Controlling illegal immigration, he argues, is not a matter of guarding borders or setting quotas, but a labour issue; and until labour laws are enforced and organized labour reaches out to this rapidly growing work-force, they will continue to work in conditions approaching modern slavery.
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- PublisherThe New Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 156584355X
- ISBN 13 9781565843554
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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