2. Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal Dubai Business Sector
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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.18ap5i
- isbn: 9781783743339
- eisbn: 9791036516580
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globalization Central Asia translocality Caucasus locality cross-regional networks Area Studies Sociology & Anthropology SOC002010 JHMCSujets proches
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Abdullah Mirzoev et al., « 2. Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal Dubai Business Sector », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.18ap5i
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Introduction Thirty-seven-year-old Firuz visited Dubai for the first time in December 2007. He came to celebrate the New Year with many other tourists in front of the Burj Khalifa tower. Firuz worked for a construction company in Moscow, but after his Dubai trip he left Russia to join a friend who was running a business exporting second-hand cars from the United Arab Emirates to Tajikistan. In Dubai, Firuz had quickly come to appreciate the better living conditions and business-friendly envir...