John Washington, at NYRB: "'The tendency to look at migrant smuggling more as a pathology than as a social phenomenon has [...] long influenced the foundational research questions,' Luca Raineri writes in a chapter of the Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, explaining why perhaps the topic hasn't been seriously assessed outside of academia, though human smuggling has persisted for millennia. Despite the dearth of books tackling the subject head-on, there are noteworthy contributions, including Ted Conover's Coyotes (1987), Marianna S. Wokeck's Trade in Strangers (1999), Patrick Radden Keefe's The Snakehead (2009), David Spener's Clandestine Crossings (2009), and Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano's Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Savior (2016)."