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Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia

In: Central Asian Affairs
Author:
Rano Turaeva Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, r.turaeva@gmail.com

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14 Mar 2018
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The paper sheds light on informal economies, focusing on transnational entrepreneurs between Central Asia and Russia. Both male and female entrepreneurs from Central Asia live mobile economic lives, traveling between Central Asia and Russia and forming a kind of class. With Islam playing a prominent role in the regulation of informal economies, Islamic belonging has become a stronger marker of identity than ethnicity among Central Asian migrants in Russia, and mosque communities have grown in influence. Mosques have become places to meet and socialize, where contacts are established and maintained.

Title:
Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00501004
Language:
English
Pages:
57–75
Keywords:
informal economy; entrepreneurship; Central Asia; Russia; mosque communities; alternative orders
In:
Central Asian Affairs
In:
Volume 5: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill | Schöningh
E-ISSN:
2214-2290
Print ISSN:
2214-2282
Subjects:
Area Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Asian Studies, Social Sciences

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