Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos
provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the challenges of bringing postcolonial,
racism and migration research into a meaningful dialogue. Based on the research …

Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic, is currently experiencing dramatic social changes as a
result of both Western and Eastern influences. Notions of masculinity and what it means to …

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states,
flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization …

This article demonstrates how social exclusion affects the strategies that migrants and their
children experience vis-à-vis the preschool education system of the host society. We use the …

This article argues for moving beyond existing conceptualizations of the" informal economy"
that construe informality as a distinct phenomenon with more or less clearly defined borders …

Building on contemporary social science, we intend to go beyond current Russian studies by
creating a completely new paradigm in the field. In this chapter, we develop the conceptual …

Immigration control in Russia, one of the world's top five largest immigrant-receiving
countries, is rife with corruption and other informal practices. Instead of framing corruption …

In this chapter, we explore the multifaceted role, logic and morality of informal transactions in
order to better understand the socio-legal context informing the meaning of corruption. Our …

By elaborating on the findings of two data sets collected in both Uzbekistan and Japan, this
paper demonstrates that Japan has increasingly become a new frontier for Uzbek …