Mafias on the Move

How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19973447
AutoresFederico Varese (0000-0003-4258-4473, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Páginas278
Data de publicação2011-02-20
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoMafias on the move (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691128559.001.0001
OpenAlexW4232785146
Open LibraryOL25198852M
ISBN9780691128559
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As this book explains, the truth is more complicated. The author has spent years researching mafia groups in Italy, Russia, the United States, and China, and argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonize new territories. Once there, they do not always succeed in establishing themselves. The book spells out the conditions that lead to their long-term success, namely sudden market expansion that is neither exploited by local rivals nor blocked by authorities. Ultimately the inability of the state to govern economic transformations gives mafias their opportunity. In a series of matched comparisons, the book charts the attempts of the Calabrese 'Ndrangheta to move to the north of Italy, and shows how the Sicilian mafia expanded to early twentieth-century New York, but failed around the same time to find a niche in Argentina. The book explains why the Russian mafia failed to penetrate Rome but succeeded in Hungary. A pioneering chapter on China examines the challenges that triads from Taiwan and Hong Kong find in branching out to the mainland. This book is both a compelling read and a sober assessment of the risks posed by globalization and immigration for the spread of mafias

China · Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Genealogy · Geography · Globalization · Immigration · Mainland China · Political economy · Political science · Sicilian · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Law · Globalisierung · Italien · Mafia · Migration · Organisiertes Verbrechen · Organized crime · Russland · Social sciences · Transnational crime