Abstract
Smuggling in the southern Philippines between the 1950s and the 1960s was not simply the exchange of goods between the Sulu Archipelago and Borneo. Patterns of government interdiction show a far more extensive network that linked Japan, Hong Kong, North Borneo, Sulu, and the various parts of the Philippines. The Sulu Archipelago was far from being a mere backwater where contraband goods were dumped. Its island provinces and towns were an important hub that ensured the smooth flow of the trade facilitated by a multiethnic partnership on the Philippine end. It was also a trade that a weak Philippine state could not eradicate.
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Abinales, Patricio N.
(2025)
"Blue Seals and the Sulu World,"
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints: Vol. 73:
No.
3, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/2244-1638.5150
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol73/iss3/4
