Reddit reviews McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

Eric Schlosser (the guy who did Fast Food Nation) has a book called Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor on the American Black Market. It's a great read.

Also, look into Misha Glenny's McMafia. It's about the intersection of organized crime/the black market and globalization and open markets.

They're not illegal immigrants, that's not really a big problem in Australia. They come here legally on false pretences (ie. they think they'll get employment as a waitress etc.) and then get their passports confiscated by their pimps.

Most of the illegal immigrants in Australia are english backpackers overstaying their visas.

If you want to read something more about it there's quite a good, easy to read book called McMafia, it's about the globalization of organized crime in general but a large section of the book deals with human trafficking. But just a word of warning if you decide to read it; it's the kind of stuff that will have you just sitting staring at a blank wall in despair and horror at what's going on all over the world at an industrial scale. It's pretty confronting and can really bring you down... so, yeah read at your own risk.

Here you go.
http://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400044111

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I've enjoyed the following, not being from that part of the world, culture or religion you'd have to take my insight with a grain of salt. There doesn't seem to be that much information about that part of the world, one of the reasons I find it so fascinating. It's fairly invisible. There is typically one viewpoint from this media, red team or blue team, nothing seems to be that unbiased. I found "The Oath" to be the most informative and interesting.

BOOKS-

• The Oath https://www.amazon.com/Oath-Surgeon-Under-Fire/dp/0802714048
  
  
• Inferno in Chechyna https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611687373/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Young Stalin https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400096138/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Soviet Mafia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312071353/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• My Jihad
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585745650/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Man without a Face
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594486514/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Blowing Up Russia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594032017/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The World's Most Dangerous Places
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060011602/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Dirty War
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1860468977/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Merchant Of Death
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470048662/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Urban Guerrilla Warfare
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813124379/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• ANYTHING by Misha Glenny (althought about Former Yugoslavia Mainly)
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400044111/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140257713/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140172866/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  DOCS-
  
  
• Letter To Anna
  
• Chechnya The Dirty War
  
• cena prawdy "truth"
  
• immortal fortress
  
• From Beirut to Bosnia (good as well)
  
• Children of Beslan
  
• Terror in Moscow
  
• Nedoverie "Disbelief"