A comprehensive global investigation into Vietnamese organised crime overseas (VOCO) elucidates the mechanisms by which migration, inequality, and trust networks facilitate illicit economies, ranging from cannabis cultivation to human trafficking and wildlife smuggling.
This book provides an in-depth examination of the intricate landscape of Vietnamese organised crime and its extensive international influence. Covering regions such as Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, it elucidates how migration, socioeconomic disparities, and informal networks influence criminal activities across international borders.
The chapters address an array of issues, including cannabis cultivation in the United Kingdom and Czech Republic, wildlife trafficking in Africa, cyber fraud in Vietnam, and the exploitation of migrant workers in Taiwan. Utilising interviews, court documents, and real-life narratives, the book sheds light on prominent cases, such as the Essex lorry tragedy and the emergence of youth gangs in Sydney’s Cabramatta district. Additionally, it examines how kinship connections and trust networks facilitate these operations, while also highlighting the challenges encountered by law enforcement agencies and policymakers. By integrating theoretical insights with practical examples, this work offers a unique perspective on crime as a global phenomenon intertwined with migration and social vulnerability.
Its relevance, timeliness, and accessibility make it valuable for a diverse audience, including academics, students, journalists, practitioners, and individuals concerned with social justice and international security.
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"Wow! What an amazing contribution of genuinely global insights on the dynamics of Vietnamese organised crime! This book very successfully shows the success, reach but also persistent vulnerabilities that these organised crime groups and the diaspora more broadly experience. With reach across multiple global illicit markets, and outlining their deep links also with licit structures, I couldnt agree more with the books statement that this demands a rethinking of organised crime through the lens of transnationalism, ethnicity, and structural vulnerabilities. Fantastic, enriching insights from a wonderfully diverse set of authors and contributors. Thank you for this very important contribution.
Louise Taylor, Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC), Director of the GITOC in Asia and the Pacific
"This book is innovative, illuminating, and important. The 19 chapters provide novel, compelling and incisive analyses of Vietnamese criminal organisations overseas, with case studies covering rhino poaching in South Africa, cannabis farming in Britain, and money laundering vulnerabilities in Vietnam as well as Vietnamese organised crime in Australia, Canada, and the Czech Republic. The authors draw on existing concepts and frameworks and combine them with innovative and exciting research. As a result, the volume significantly augments our knowledge of emergent and under-studied criminal organisations."
Phil Williams, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
1. Vietnamese Organised Crime Overseas: The International Dimension of
the Problem
2. Vietnamese Serious and Organised Crime in the United Kingdom
3. Criminal Structures in the Vietnamese Diaspora in the Czech Republic
4. Vietnamese Youth Gangs in Australia: Understanding the Fellow-Countryman
Associations in Vietnamese Gangs?
5. Tracking the Evolution of Vietnamese
Organised Crime in Canada
6. In Whose Profit? The Economy of Illegality:
Vietnamese Migration, State Racism, and Organised Crime in the Czech Republic
and Taiwan
7. Towards a Better Understanding of Vietnamese Youth Gangs in the
United States: A Broader Perspective through Examining Criminological
Theories
8. At the Beginning of a Smuggling Ring: Trafficking Agencies
Activities in Vietnam that Led to the Essex Tragedy
9. Cultural Criminology:
Discourse, Context, and Agency of Undocumented Vietnamese Female Married
Migrants in South Korea
10. How Crop-Sitters Unveil the Vietnamese Cannabis
Industry in Australia: An Autobiography of a Cannabis Grower
11. Illicit
Production and Trade in Cannabis and Methamphetamine Organized by Vietnamese
Nationals in the Czech Republic
12. From Southern Africa to Southeast Asia:
The role of Vietnamese criminal networks in the rhino horn trade
13. Orange
into Citrus? How Vietnamese Migrant Workers Enter the Illegal Logging
Business in Taiwan and its Implications
14. The Online Identity Theft
Committed in the United States by Vietnamese: An Analysis of the Hieu Minh
Ngo Case
15. The Policing of Vietnamese Serious and Organised Crime in the
United Kingdom
16. Tracing Vietnamese Wildlife Trafficking Groups in South
Africa: Transnational Media and Challenges in Policing
17. Vietnams
vulnerability to transnational money laundering
18. Challenges to
International Cooperation in policing Vietnamese Crime overseas: Opinions of
Vietnamese Experts
19. Final Marks
Hai Thanh Luong is a Lecturer in Criminology at Griffith University. His research concentrates on cybercrime, transnational organised crime, drug trafficking, and migrant smuggling. He is the author of Transnational Drug Trafficking across the VietnamLaos Border (2019), a translator of Herding Cats (To Giang), and has written numerous articles on Vietnamese organised crime.
Filip Kraus, Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian Studies and Senior researcher at the Research Centre for Excellence Sinophone, Faculty of Art, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. He focuses on Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vietnamese Society; Vietnamese Migration and Diaspora; or Vietnamese organized Crime.
Miroslav Noina, Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. He specialises in social anthropology and cultural criminology, as well as Southeast Asian studies. His recent research focuses on Vietnamese organized crime, drug-related issues, and wildlife crime.
Daniel Silverstone is the Director of the School of Law and Justice Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. He has a longstanding interest in the smuggling and trafficking of Vietnamese migrants into and across the United Kingdom. His research is in the area of serious and organised crime and its policing, and he works he works as an independent expert witness in the English and Scottish courts.
