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The United States is home to more than a million Chinese immigrants who make up about one percent of the unlawful immigrant population in the U.S. Nine-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Jon Alpert travels to China's Fujian province, where people pay more than

Argues that trafficking is the unacknowledged underside of globalization. The official economy relies on this illegal economy. Without it, globalization cannot access cheap labor, it cannot reach vulnerable new markets, and it cannot finance expansion into the places most ravaged by human suffering. Traffick has become the secret basis of global expansion. Bhattacharyya examines the workings of the illegal economy, breaking it down into four main...

"The story of six children who were stolen from their homes in Africa and sold into slavery across the Atlantic in 1839. They were transported by ship from West Africa to Cuba to the United States, and after protracted legal struggles they returned to Africa to restart their lives"-- "The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions,...