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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476758903321

Autore

Turaeva Rano

Titolo

Labour, mobility and informal practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe : power, institutions and mobile actors in transnational space / / editors, Rano Turaeva, Rustamjon Urinboyev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2021

London : , : Routledge, , 2021

ISBN

9781003176763

1003176763

9781000393231

1000393232

9781000393262

1000393267

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Collana

BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Classificazione

BUS027000BUS038000BUS113000

Disciplina

305.562

Soggetti

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:  Labour, mobilities and informal practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe -- Part I Labour in times of uncertainty -- Chapter 1 The struggle for formal work:  The everyday experiences of Russia's Central Asian labour migrants -- Chapter 2 Driving in the shadows:  Rural-urban labour migrants as informal taxi drivers in post-socialist Tashkent -- Chapter 3 Deportation regimes in the post-Soviet space:  Producing deportable migrants in the Russian Federation -- Chapter 4 The migration infrastructure of posting:  Transnational informality -- Part II Mobility as blurring national, transnational and digital boundaries -- Chapter 5 Smartphone transnationalism in non-Western migration regimes:  Transnational ethnography of Uzbek migrant workers in Russia -- Chapter 6 Central Asian female migrants' transnational social spaces:  Straddling illegality and tradition -- Chapter 7 Spiritual mobility:  Alternative healing practices amongst



Central Asian migrants in Moscow -- Chapter 8 Roadsides of mobility:  Informal socioeconomic strategies in suburban western Poland -- Part III Informality as state practice dealing with mobility -- Chapter 9 Symbolic state imagery, informal state practice -- Chapter 10 Informal practices and the rule of law:  Russia, migration and the 'Arctic route' -- Chapter 11 'Ask us decently and then we will not reject anyone!':  Providing informal healthcare in a Kazakh medical space -- Chapter 12 Dual citizenship and twofold informality:  The interstices of state power and transnational lives amongst Meskhetian returnees in Georgia -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to the link between labour mobility and informality and comprises convincing case studies from a wide range of post-socialist countries. Overall, it highlights the importance of trust, transnational networks, and digital technologies in settings where the rules governing economic and social activities of mobile workers are often unclear and flexible.