ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part I|70 pages
Labour in times of uncertainty
chapter 1|17 pages
The struggle for formal work
chapter 2|15 pages
Driving in the shadows
chapter 3|18 pages
Deportation regimes in the post-Soviet space
part II|86 pages
Mobility as blurring national, transnational and digital boundaries
chapter 5|25 pages
Smartphone transnationalism in non-Western migration regimes
chapter 6|19 pages
Central Asian female migrants' transnational social spaces
chapter 7|16 pages
Spiritual mobility
chapter 8|24 pages
Roadsides of mobility
part III|76 pages
Informality as state practice dealing with mobility