Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g
Reihe: New Mobilities in Asia
Mobility in Times of Uncertainty
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g
Reihe: New Mobilities in Asia
ISBN: 978-94-6372-621-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow’s wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political economy of sexuality, and social belonging -- deepening our knowledge of how the core social values and cultural logics that underpin Vietnamese personhood are challenged and reconstituted by the ethos of the market economy. This book sheds important light on processes of mobility and social change in post-socialist societies that continue to grapple with yawning chasms between old and new ways of life, the local and the global, policy and practice, and obsolete governance techniques and rapidly changing socio-economic realities.
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Chapter I Introduction
The Market
Vietnamese migration to Russia
Mobility in times of uncertainty
Uncertain time, uncertain life
Uncertainty: conceptual debates
Productive and destructive uncertainty
Structure of the book
Chapter II Russia's post-Soviet migration regime
Migration to Russia
The Russian immigration regime
The securitization of migration
Russian migrantophobia
Chapter III Navigating Russia's shadow economy
Legality for sale
CH? Chim - Sadovod market
The migration industry
The Go-betweener
Chapter IV Market ethos and the volatile radius of trust
Uncertainty and market moralities
One for oneself
Money matters
Chapter V Love and sex in times of uncertainty
Provisional intimacies
'Better safe than sorry'
What's love got to do with it? Narratives of sex, money and morality
Chapter VI Transient existence and the quest for certainty
I'm here to make money, not to live
Consumption as belonging
Renegotiating the 'Con buôn' identity
Conclusion
Appendix
Methodology
References
Index
