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"Madam Bun-i (HWANG Jeong-sun) is called by her fellow nightclub workers as their 'president.' She needs to earn as much money as she can to support her three college-age daughters in Seoul, although they think she runs a dress shop. Their success means everything to Bun-i. However, Seong-hui (LEE Kyoung-hee), the eldest daughter, upsets Bun-i with her decision to marry an aspiring novelist and truck driver (KIM Jin-kyu). Dong-hui (KIM Hye-jeong), the second daughter, lives up to her mother's expectations, involving herself romantically with a boy from a wealthy family (LEE Sang-sa). After Dong-hui's romance ends, she comes to Busan to find her mother, but Bun-i has been imprisoned for smuggling. After her release, Bun-i finds out that Dong-hui works as a bar girl at the club next to Bun-i's. The youngest daughter, Yang-hui (TAE Hyun-sil) gets married and plans to study music abroad. Her final violin recital before her departure is held in Busan, and she finds out what kind of job her mother has. Consumed by rage, she rejects her mother at first, but swiftly regrets her anger. She goes to see her mother and apologize, only to learn that Bun-i has committed suicide."--Container.

• Introduction
• Before
• The beginning of the end
• Terror comes to Lwów
• Transformation
• The dystopian utopia
• Annihilation
• "Better to die a soldier"
• Frozen cargo
• The Polish question
• Majdanek
• Janina's lists
• Rescue
• Soup with a side of hope
• Harvest of death
• Christmas at Majdanek
• Cat and mouse
• The plot
• The end approaches
• Blood on the stairs
• The end
• Flight
• A new beginning
• Epilogue: "Janina's story"
• Coda.

"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland's Nazi occupiers. Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance. With guile, cajolery, and steely persistence, the "Countess" persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp. She won permission to deliver food and medicine--even decorated Christmas trees--for thousands more of the camp's prisoners. At the same time, she personally smuggled supplies and messages to resistance fighters imprisoned at Majdanek, where 63,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers and shooting pits. Incredibly, she eluded detection, and ultimately survived the war and emigrated to the US. Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir, supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg's sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative. Like The Light of Days, Schindler's List, and Irena's Children, The Counterfeit Countess is an unforgettable account of inspiring courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty"-- Provided by publisher.

"Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents' behest. Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren't real, and dreams things that are. Always the family disappointment, Naftaly would still risk his life to honor his father's last wishes. After the Queen demands every Jew convert or face banishment, Toba and Naftaly are among thousands of Jews who flee their homes. Defying royal orders to abandon all possessions, Toba keeps an amulet she must never take off; Naftaly smuggles a centuries-old book he's forbidden to read. But the Inquisition is hunting these particular treasures--and they're not hunting alone. Toba stumbles through a pomegranate grove into the mirror realm of the Mazik: mythical, terrible immortals with an Inquisition of their own, equally cruel and even more powerful. With the Mazik kingdoms in political turmoil, this Inquisition readies its bid to control both realms. In each world, Toba and Naftaly must evade both Inquisitions long enough to unravel the connection between their family heirlooms and the realm of the Mazik. Their fates are tied to this strange place, and it's up to them to save it."--Dust jacket flap.

• Part I. Sailor's delight
• Part II. Dead reckoning
• Part III. Maiden voyages
• Part IV. Eclipse
• Part V. Trimming sails
• Part VI. Broadsided!
• Part VII. On watch
• Part VIII. Stormy seas
• Part IX. Mutiny
• Part X. Uncharted waters.
• Part XI. Gale warnings
• Part XII. Mayday
• Part XIII. Stowaways
• Part XIV. Mates
• Part XV. Smuggler
• PART XVI. All hands on deck
• Part XVII. The tide turns
• Part XVIII. Seeking safe harbor
• Part XIX. Homeward bound
• Ship's log. More about Henny, Gerda III, and the escape of the Danish Jews
• Homecoming
• What happened to Gerda III?
• Photographs
• Poetry notes
• Sources.

"The inspirational true story of how 22-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. On the Radar
• 2. Smuggling in North Africa: Stakes and Structures
• 3. Regulating Smuggling at the Border
• 4. Regulating Smuggling in the Borderlands
• 5. Smuggling Rents and Social Peace
• 6. Tunisia: Smugglers and Revolution
• 7. Morocco: Smugglers and Reform
• 8. The Valley and the Mountain: Lived Political Settlements
• Conclusion: Remaking the Maghreb
• Appendix 1: Studying Smuggling in North Africa
• Appendix 2: Interview Lists
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

• INTRODUCTION: North Korea--the World's Last Stalinist Regime
• ONE: A HAPPY CHILDHOOD IN PYONGYANG
• TWO: MONEY AND THE REVOLUTION CAN GET ALONG
• THREE: NEXT YEAR IN PYONGYANG
• FOUR: IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP AT THE AGE OF NINE
• FIVE: WORK GROUP NUMBER 10
• SIX: THE WILD BOAR: A TEACHER ARMED AND READY TO STRIKE --SEVEN: DEATH OF A BLACK CHAMPION
• EIGHT: CORN, ROACHES, AND SNAKE BRANDY --NINE: DEATH AT YODOK
• TEN: THE MUCH-COVETED RABBITS
• ELEVEN: MADNESS STALKS THE PRISONERS
• TWELVE: BIWEEKLY CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM
• THIRTEEN: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS AND POSTMORTEM STONINGS
• FOURTEEN: LOVE AT YODOK
• FIFTEEN: SOJOURN IN THE MOUNTAIN
• SIXTEEN: TEN YEARS IN THE CAMP: THANK YOU, KIM IL-SUNG
• SEVENTEEN: THE NORTH KOREAN PARADISE
• EIGHTEEN: THE CAMP THREATENS AGAIN
• NINETEEN: ESCAPE TO CHINA
• TWENTY: SMALL-TIME PROSTITUTION AND BIG-TIME SMUGGLING IN DALIAN
• TWENTY-ONE: ARRIVAL IN SOUTH KOREA
• TWENTY-TWO: ADAPTING TO A CAPITALIST WORLD
• EPILOGUE: Pursuing Aid For North Korea.

North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.

After hiding out on American soil for 5 years, 36 year-old Ruben Figueroa decided to return home to Mexico. Understanding the struggle of living in fear, Ruben has since set out to find Latin Americans that have disappeared in Mexico. Ruben is always on the road in search of "Desaparecidos". Most originating from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, dozens of thousands each year decide to cross Mexico to get to the United States. The journey is long, involving drug traffickers, corrupt police officers and smugglers, all before reaching the most dangerous step: crossing the border. Hundreds disappear each year. Some die of thirst, others are murdered or imprisoned and some are pained with the shame of having failed. Alone, Ruben succeeds in finding the missing persons each year with just a few clues from their families such as simply a name, a photo, or a tattoo. He then reconnects them with their families, sometimes after years and years of separation.

Meet Rubel, a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga acting as the international border. The same river eroded his home in mainland India. A fragile island called Char was formed within the large river. Rubel, with his family and many homeless people settled in this barren field controlled by the border police. He dreams of going to his old school in India. But he fights on while monsoon clouds arrive inviting the flood, the river swells up again. "Char may disappear but we won't, " smiles the boy.

The abandoned Char, an island experiencing massive erosion due to a change in the currents of the river Ganga due to dam building, lies between Bangladesh and India. It is where a boy named Rubel and his family live, along with those who have lost their homes countless times. This meandering river Ganga changes its flow with cyclones, and its fragile earth frequently caves in. The island appears as a gift that the river Ganga gives to the people as a shelter after it rips away their native village with floods.The only means of survival for the inhabitants of Char is to smuggle contraband into the black market. At 14, Rubel wants to go to school, but he is responsible for the family's livelihood. Reality compels him to venture back and forth between India and Bangladesh every day to keep his family from starving to death.

In June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals were discovered in a truck at Dover Ferry Port in the UK. Packed like cattle in a container with no air, food or water, they suffocated to death. An estimated 100,000 Chinese people entrust their lives to human smugglers or 'Snakeheads' every year. For huge fees, they are promised a new life in the West. Correspondent traces the business of human smuggling to its source - Fujian, China. Through unprecedented access to the police and the government, the film shows Beijing's fight against the smugglers and reveals the on-going torment of the families caught-up in the Dover disaster.

• 1. Shuttle trade in Ašmjany : contextualizing oral history research
• 2. Shuttle trade and borders in Ašmjany before the disintegration of the USSR
• 3. The emergence of national borders, the flourishing of trade : shuttle trade in Ašmjany in the early 1990s
• 4. Maturation of the border, professionalization of shuttle trade (1994-2007)
• 5. Persistence of the border, disappearance of trade? : shuttle trade in Ašmjany after Schengen (2007-2011)
• 6. Shuttle trade and gender relations : a female world in a provincial border town.

Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices. Foremost, this book considers how political borders implement and/or intensify social boundaries and suggests that the selective openness of political borders, a prerequisite for the existence of female shuttle trade activities, is primarily built upon people's social characteristics. However, it claims that what can be seen as the grounds for growing inequality at a global level, at a local one may have an important resourceful meaning for various social groups including those usually perceived as disadvantaged, such as widowed female retirees or unemployed single women with children.

Untill the civil war in Syria, China has always been the largest country of migration - half a million Chinese move every year to another country. Coming to the host countries legally or illegally, they often manage to develop an independent economic position. But so far, their involvement in social issues is limited. Nearly two decades ago, Chinese immigrants were smuggled to Greece along the similar route as the current refugees. Suzanne is one of them. Before moving to Greece, she had developed a successful business in Bulgaria. When the refugee crisis arises, Suzanne decides to organize a Greek Chinese volunteer team to help as redemption towards her past. It is not easy - Suzanne struggles to persuade business-minded Chinese bosses and companies to join and has to face the sarcastic attitude of Western volunteers. Suzanne's dominant character also does not help. Against all odds, Suzanne gains a lot in such a process, so do her teammates. The film is an inside story about overseas Chinese who have been moving around the world - their pains, struggles, and their ways for survival - but also what they are leading for in the modern time when China has become a world power of economy. On top of that, when the entire humanity is under attack by extremism, we hope to tell a story of hope for 'symbiosis' where the old Chinese immigrants may be of help for the newcomers to find a way out in their host country.

One in every five women in prison in Britain today is a Nigerian woman convicted of smuggling drugs into the UK. The 'Mules' are the small-fry in a big international game. For every woman they arrest, many others will be recruited to take her place. Inside Story travels to Nigeria to discover what compels women to undertake such a dangerous mission and to explore what happens to their families while they are away for so many years.

Ah Chen works day and night in a Chinese restaurant because his family owes £20,000 to the vicious Snakehead gang who smuggled him into Britain. Mojdan is marooned, without money or hope, in Croatia. Her husband and children drowned in a boat on their doomed trek to Europe. These people are escaping war, poverty and oppression at home, or are simply attracted by the prospect of work in Europe's thriving economies. Trafficking in human beings is fast becoming a more profitable business than drugs.

While Australia spends millions of dollars to stop the flow of asylum seeker boats, its efforts are constantly undermined by criminals and corrupt military and government officials. These operators have worked in secret ... until now.

Nigeria is a hub for human trafficking. Victims are transported to 33 countries, mostly as part of the 100 billion dollar sex trade. The documentary underlines the human costs behind the statistics. Its tender, devastating interviews, reveal an all-too-common tale: African women turned prostitutes spend years paying off their trafficking debt in Europe. Few ever escape the shackles of their nightmarish ordeals and many find turning traffickers themselves is the only escape.

• Introduction
• 1 From Operación Pedro Pan to "Machine Gun Alley"
• 2 Opening the Floodgates
• 3 It's a Zoo Out There
• 4 A Liking for These People
• 5 Dying to Get Here
• 6 To the Golden Mountain
• 7 The Golden Venture
• 8 Escaping the Dragon
• 9 A War without Bullets
• 10 The Human Factor
• 11 Balseros
• 12 The Toughest Thing Is to Not Have Your Heart Broken
• 13 The Dance
• 14 Something Different Happening Every Day
• 15 Summing Up.

Of all the hot-button issues facing the United States in the early twenty-first century, perhaps none is presently generating more passion than illegal immigration. But what the vociferous public debates and sound bites often miss is that the story is far larger than the land border with Mexico.The U.S. Coast Guard has been charged with preventing undocumented migrants from entering the country for its entire existence. Best known, perhaps, for rescuing lives and preventing the smuggling of goods, the USCG is the only branch of the armed forces actually charged with law enforcement. Dennis Noble highlights the policies, strategy, and tactics used by the U.S. Coast Guard in enforcing immigration laws. But throughout, the focus remains on the human stories -- both those of the small group of men and women charged with carrying out a difficult mission as well as those of the desperate men and women willing to risk their lives for a chance to escape crushing poverty or persecution. In many cases, the service's interdiction responsibilities go hand in glove with rescue operations. As Rear Admiral Arthur E. Brooks puts it, "You can't do migrant operations without having your heart broken. "Dennis L. Noble retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a Senior Chief Marine Science Technician. He is the author of numerous articles and a dozen books, including The Rescue of the Gale Runner and Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy. A past recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award, he lives in Sequim, Washington.

• Towards the Zimbabwean crisis / Eric Kushinga Makombe, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Nathaniel Chimhete
• Mupedzanhamo : spatial struggles and displacements, Harare Flea Marketsc. 1994-2013 / Innocent Dande and Wesley Mwatwara
• Gold panning and survival in Insiza District, 1990-2009 / Wellington Bamu and Tinashe Nyamunda
• Vending as survival : street trading in Harare's CBD, 1990s to 2015 / Blessed Masawi, Joseph P. Mtisi and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
• Small-scale tobacco growers in Mashonaland East, 2003-2013 / Takesure Taringana and Pius S. Nyambara
• Missionary public health service in Zimbabwe under economic fragility, 1990-2013 / Ivo Mhike
• Hyper-inflation and social security provision in Zimbabwe, 2000-2009 : an institutional perspective on the national social security authority / Nicola Yon (Mutimurefu)
• Policing the state : the army and the preservation of 'peace and order' in Zimbabwe, c. 1997-2008 / Wesley Mwatwara and Innocent Dande
• Banking institutions' survival strategies and financial policies in a challenging economy, 2007-2015 / Mark Nyandoro, Tinotenda Dube and Albert Makochekanwa
• 'From zero to hero' : economic crisis, the Zimbabwean state and currency redenomination, 2006-2009 / Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Eric Kushinga Makombe
• 'Reviving the education sector?' The role of teacher incentives in the education sector in Zimbabwe : a case study of selected Harare urban schools, 2007-2013 / Tafara Evelyn Kombora and Bernard Kusena
• Migrant discourses in modern Zimbabwe : of transnational existence, success, generational obligations and return / Rudo Gaidzanwa
• Human and commodity smuggling across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border, 2000-2009 / Anusa Daimon and Tinashe Nyamunda
• The dynamics of cotton production and marketing in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderlands : the case of Mukumbura, c. 2000-2012 / Sylvester Dombo and Joseph Mujere.