Vietnamese Organized Crime in its International Dimension

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 Vietnam–Laos Border (2019), a translator of Herding Cats (To Giang), and has written numerous articles on Vietnamese organised crime.Filip Kraus is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian Studies and a 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 organised Crime.Miroslav Nožina is an 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 organised 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.

"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 couldn’t agree more with the book’s 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 Republic4. 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. Vietnam’s vulnerability to transnational money laundering 18. Challenges to International Cooperation in policing Vietnamese Crime overseas: Opinions of Vietnamese Experts 19. Final Marks