1st Edition
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia Mobility in Times of Uncertainty
By Lan Anh Hoang
Copyright 2020
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Lan Anh Hoang is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Australia.
