Snakeheads
- Document number
- 1562
- Date
- 1994
- Title
- Snakeheads
- Author/publisher
- Jon Alpert
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Human trafficking, Smuggling, Irregular migration, China, United States,
- Summary
- A rare view inside the illegal Chinese immigration trade. In Fujian Province, PRC, people agree to pay more than $30,000 to smugglers -- "snakeheads" -- who will sneak them into the US where horrid living conditions await them, and long work hours at illegally low pay. Jon Alpert -- 9-time Emmy Award winner – posed as an American businessman, armed with a hidden camera, looking for “man brokers” (Snakeheads) in China. Officially speaking, the “selling” of Chinese to western companies is prohibited but the opposite seems true. He reveals Chinese government complicity with people smuggling. Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews refugee expert Arthur Helton, and award-winning journalist Ying Chan about the issue.
Watch on : https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/2877368c-cd7d-4764-ab35-ec4b531d925d/snakeheads-the-chinese-mafia-the-new-slave-trade - Related documents
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