Conceptualizing informal practices as solidarity-chains Diasporas coming into existence
Conceptualizing informal practices as solidarity-chains - Diasporas coming into existence
Author(s): Sandra King-SavićSubject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Informal practices; Diaspora; Memory; Belonging; Transnational practices; Solidarity
Summary/Abstract: During the 1990s, informal trade – or šverc - was widespread in the former Yugoslav rump state. The following article conceptualizes the mechanisms behind the establishment of informal markets in light of ‘legal failure’ in Novi Pazar, Serbia, where informality produced an alternative, transnational connotation of belonging, leading to a ‘competition between law and social norms’. Trading thus served the purpose of a safety net that generated new and renewed social ties with the diaspora in Turkey, and the Turkish state writ large.
Journal: Tokovi istorije
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 227-251
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English