Vietnamese migrants in Russia : mobility in times of uncertainty / Lan Anh Hoang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoang, Lan Anh, 1977- author.

Series:

New mobilities in Asia.

New mobilities in Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese--Russia.

Vietnamese.

Russia--Emigration and immigration.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Russia's post-Soviet migration regime

Navigating Russia's shadow economy

Market ethos and the volatile radius of trust

Love and sex in times of uncertainty

Transient existence and the quest for certainty.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70908-7

90-485-4463-7

9781003709084

OCLC:

1181774205