TY  - BOOK
AU  - Varese,Federico
TI  - Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories 
SN  - 9780691158013
U1  - 364.10609 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Crime and globalization
KW  - Mafia
KW  - History
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - Transnational crime
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 'Ndrangheta
KW  - Budapest
KW  - China
KW  - Chinese triads
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - Italian mafia
KW  - Italian migration
KW  - Italian organized crime
KW  - Italy
KW  - Mafiosi
KW  - New York City
KW  - Prohibition
KW  - Reggio Calabria
KW  - Rome
KW  - Rosario
KW  - Russian mafia
KW  - Russian mobsters
KW  - Sicilian mafia
KW  - Sicily
KW  - Solntsevo fraternity
KW  - Solntsevskaya
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - cartels
KW  - corruption
KW  - criminal multinational corporations
KW  - criminal protection
KW  - democracy
KW  - entrenchment
KW  - generalized trust
KW  - globalization
KW  - immigration
KW  - liberalization
KW  - mafia emergence
KW  - mafia families
KW  - mafia transplantation
KW  - mafia
KW  - mafioso
KW  - open borders
KW  - organized crime
KW  - private protection
KW  - protection money
KW  - transnational organized crime
KW  - triads
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; One: Introduction --; Two: Mafia Transplantation --; Three: The `Ndrangheta in Piedmont and Veneto --; Four: The Russian Mafia in Rome and Budapest --; Five: Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880-1940 --; Six: The Future of the Mafias? Foreign Triads in China --; Seven: Mafia Origins, Transplantation, and the Paradoxes of Democracy --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth is more complicated. Varese 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. Varese 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, Varese 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. He explains why the Russian mafia failed to penetrate Rome but succeeded in Hungary. In a pioneering chapter on China, he examines the challenges that triads from Taiwan and Hong Kong find in branching out to the mainland. Based on ground-breaking field work and filled with dramatic stories, this book is both a compelling read and a sober assessment of the risks posed by globalization and immigration for the spread of mafias
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836727?locatt=mode:legacy
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