Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia

Autor:	Magnus Marsden, Diana Ibañez-Tirado
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	South Central Asia GN370 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Development 050701 cultural studies Uzbek language.human_language 0506 political science GN406 Globalization Afghan Economy Chinese city GN Political science H1 050602 political science & public administration language GN301 GN357 Earth-Surface Processes
Zdroj:	Central Asian Survey Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus ISBN: 9781003259886
ISSN:	1465-3354 0263-4937
DOI:	10.1080/02634937.2020.1716687
Popis:	This article analyses the trajectories of two transnational networks present in the Chinese city of Yiwu: Afghan merchants who trade goods in and out Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, and Uzbek traders (citizens of either Tajikistan or Uzbekistan) who commercialise their merchandise in and out Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. Our aim is to capture an ethnographically grounded understanding of informal markets and economies by analysing the notion of trade “outside the law” including the contested yet widely used category of “the smuggler”. By paying attention to the fluidity of trading practices “outside the law”, we also address the uses and limitations of metaphors widely used in scholarly analysis of informal markets: notably those of “lower” and “higher” forms of globalisation, and the transposition of formal-legal and informal-illegal exchanges onto the notions of economic “centres” and “peripheries”.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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