Binding: Hardcover
Description: Political instability poverty climate change and the insatiable appetite for cheap labour all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers - or coyotes or guides as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services - are only ever reported on from a distance using tired tropes and stereotypes often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry internationally recognised anthropologist and expert Jason De Leon embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years. The result of this unique and extraordinary access is Soldiers AND Kings: the first ever in - depth character - driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart - wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful original voice De Leon expertly chronicles the lives of low - level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag - tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. Soldiers AND Kings is not only a ground - breaking up - close glimpse of a difficult - to - access world it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
Title: Soldiers And Kings Survival And Hope In The World Of Human Smuggling
Author(s): De Leon Jason
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Barcode: 9780593298589
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 3/19/2024
Category: Social Services & Welfare, Criminology