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Abstract / Summary

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 the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices. Foremost, this book considers how political borders implement and/or intensify social boundaries and suggests that the selective openness of political borders, a prerequisite for the existence of female shuttle trade activities, is primarily built upon people’s social characteristics. However, it claims that what can be seen as the grounds for growing inequality at a global level, at a local one may have an important resourceful meaning for various social groups including those usually perceived as disadvantaged, such as widowed female retirees or unemployed single women with children.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Olga Sasunkevich, fl. 2009

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2015 Olga Sasunkevich

Content Type

General reference book

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

2015

Page Count

220

Publication Year

2016

Publisher

Routledge (Publisher)

Place Published / Released

New York, NY

Subject

Global Issues, World History, Social Sciences, History, Territorial Disputes, Trade and Commerce, Race and Gender, Border Disputes, Border Enforcement and Control, Border and Gender, Border Events and Areas Context, Eastern European Borders, Crossing borders, Trade and commerce, Political boundaries, Sociology, Politics & Policy, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Comercio, Comércio, Raça e Gênero, Raza y Género, Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; Unión Soviética, União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; União Soviética, USSR (Historical Place), Soviet Union (Historical Place), Lituania, Bielorrusia, Bielorrússia, Ašmjany, Grodno Region, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Historical Place), Lithuania, Belarus, Ashmyany, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts, Lithuanians, Belarusan, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Series / Program

Border Regions Series

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Comercio, Comércio, Raça e Gênero, Raza y Género, Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; Unión Soviética, União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; União Soviética, USSR (Historical Place), Soviet Union (Historical Place), Lituania, Bielorrusia, Bielorrússia, Ašmjany, Grodno Region