Informal Trade Gender and the Border Experience From Political Borders to Social Boundaries |
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Author:
| Sasunkevich, Olga |
Series title: | Border Regions Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4724-6222-0 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $119.95 |
Book Description:
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Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over...
More DescriptionDetailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices.