Space, Kinship Networks and Youth Transition in Provincial Russia: Negotiating Urban–Rural and Inter-Regional Migration

Walker, Charlie

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“…In addition, existing contacts in the city were considered resources of support and were utilized by young people in order to find work or a place to live in the city. Similar tendencies have been noted in other post-socialist countries (see Roberts et al, 2000;Glendinning et al, 2004;White, 2007;Walker, 2010). Glendinning et al (2004: 39), for example, found prospects for migration amongst young people in rural parts of Novosibirsk Oblast e in Siberia to be fundamentally tied to their kinship networks, and suggested that the assistance of siblings who had already moved away was a crucial resource.…”

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‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia

Trell

Hoven

Huigen

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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confidence: 60%

“…In other post-socialist countries similar tendencies can be noted. In particular young people, as White (2010) and Walker (2010) have argued, see migration as the only option left for making the most of the new opportunities, increasing their social status, or sometimes simply for survival (see also Walker and Stephenson, 2010).…”

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‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia

Trell

Hoven

Huigen

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Instead, coping mechanisms such as economies of favours (Kuehnast and Dudwick, 2004;, informal/undeclared work (Stenning, 2005;Round, 2007, 2010), 'social acknowledgement' (Morris, 2011: 629), gift exchange (Mauss, 2002), social capital (Moran, 2001;, blat (Onoshchenko and Williams, 2013), social networks (Grabher and Stark, 1997;Lonkila, 1997Lonkila, , 1999Walker, 2010) and memory (Buyandelgeriyn, 2008) have all helped circumvent the challenges of post-Soviet everyday life.…”

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Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Morris¹,

Polese²

2015

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“…Estrategias tales como el trabajo informal (Stenning, 2005;y Williams & Round, 2007), la economía de favores (Pavlovskaya, 2004;Kuehnast & Dudwick, 2004;Polese, 2008), el "reconocimiento social" (Morris, 2011(Morris, : 629, 2012, el intercambio de regalos (Mauss, 2002;Polese, 2015;Stan, 2011), la memoria (Buyandelgeriyn, 2008) y las redes sociales o de parentesco (Grabher & Stark, 1997;Lonkkila, 1997;1999;Walker, 2010) no solo han ayudado a navegar a través del "día a día" post-soviético (Bruns, 2012;Morris, 2012;Polese, 2006;Round & Williams, 2012;Urunboyev, 2013;Sasunkievich, 2014). Igualmente han permitido, y ello probablemente sea lo más importante, revelar la existencia de un sistema completo en el cual la "informalidad ha llegado para quedarse" (Morris & Polese, 2014: 1).…”

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Informalidad y supervivencia en Chernóbil: etnografía de un espacio nuclear

Davies

Polese²

2015

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ResumenRecientemente, el debate sobre el fenómeno de las actividades económicas informales se ha ido alejando, por lo menos parcialmente, de aquellas lógicas estrictamente monetarias, desplazándose hacia esquemas más complejos donde, dentro de perspectivas a largo plazo, se asumen paradigmas no materialistas. Sin embargo, el papel de la informalidad en numerosos aspectos de la existencia individual sigue sin ser verdadero objeto de estudio. Este artículo desvela qué ocurre cuando el Estado se retira (véase el fin de la garantía de prestaciones y servicios sociales) de una determinada área geográfica y qué tipo de mecanismos, prácticas e instituciones surgen en su lugar. Sugerimos que en el contexto de la desaparición de un Estado de bienestar y en ausencia de alternativas por parte del sector privado una miríada de transacciones y de actores logran colmar el vacío y ofrecer así una cobertura de carácter informal. Nuestro caso de estudio se centra en la Zona de Exclusión de Chernóbil en el noreste de Ucrania, afectada por el accidente nuclear homónimo, revelando con ello cómo todos aquellos que han quedado excluidos y abandonados, y a quienes identificamos como inmersos en la "nuda vida" post-nuclear (Agamben, 1998), han logrado crear mecanismos de seguridad social independientemente de los esquemas estatales, ofreciendo un papel complementario, y ello hasta hoy en día. Arreglos informales, locales y no oficiales en un espacio nuclear resultan cruciales para la supervivencia en un entorno marginal y peligroso como es este.Palabras clave: Chernóbil, economías informales, informalidad, nuda vida, post-socialismo, Ucrania. AbstractRecent informality debates have started exploring, in addition to monetary and pure economic transactions, non-monetary ones, often embedded in long term and established social relations. In spite of this, the role informality plays in various aspects of people's lives has been studied only partly. In our work we explore the case of a retiring state that stops providing benefits and social services to a given area of a country. We concentrate our analysis on the practices and mechanisms that emerge from this de jure and de facto abandonment by both the state and the private sector. By so doing, we concentrate a large variety of transactions and actors that emerge to replace the state and shed the basis for a large and comprehensive informal welfare mechanism. The geographical area studied here is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. We maintain that these areas have seen the establishment and consolidation of mechanisms of social security completely independent from, but yet complementing, the state welfare provider. We will show that informality, and informal practices, are vital to survival in a marginalised and risky environment.

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Space, Kinship Networks and Youth Transition in Provincial Russia: Negotiating Urban–Rural and Inter-Regional Migration

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia

‘It's good to live in Järva-Jaani but we can't stay here’: Youth and belonging in rural Estonia

Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

Informalidad y supervivencia en Chernóbil: etnografía de un espacio nuclear

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