SOC110 Lecture 20: Soc_110_Lecture_20
Document Summary
Thousands of immigrants from mainland china were smuggled into the. United states illegally each year during the last two decades of the twentieth century. A migration included the importation, export and mixed-type transactions. Many of the immigrants came from the province of fujian, a poor region. Many smuggled immigrants traveled to mexico or central america by. Some flew to moscow, waited for a plane to carry them to havana, and. During the 1990s, the standard fee paid to smugglers by a prospective then attempted to arrive by sea in the us immigrant was ,000 with most of it payable in installments after they reached the us. The fee contributed to the immigrants being known as "eighteen. Thousand dollar men" or "snake people" in the local chinese culture, the latter word derived from the chinese name for human smugglers, The smugglers" global network included safe houses from moscow to.
