Map
Photos
Tables
Acknowledgements
Tặng Một Người Bạn (For a Friend)
The Market
Vietnamese migration to Russia
Map 1 Regions of Vietnam
Table 1 Under- and Unemployment rates by region in 2014
Uncertain time, uncertain life
Uncertainty: conceptual debates
Productive and destructive uncertainty
Structure of this book
Migration to Russia
The Russian immigration regime
The securitization of migration
Russian migrantophobia
Photo 2 Yuzhnyie Vorota (Южные ворота – Southern Gates) market (also known to Vietnamese traders as Km 19 market)
Photo 4 Sadovod market (Садовод рынок), which is often referred to as Birds’ market (Chợ Chim) by Vietnamese migrants
Photo 6 Sadovod market at 5am in November 2016; northern car park facing Verkhniye Polya Road
Photo 8 Sadovod market in November 2016; a Vietnamese itinerant vendor apprehended by market security guards for working without a permit
Legality for sale
Chợ Chim – Sadovod market
The migration industry
The Go-between
Photo 10 A living room converted into a bedroom shared by a couple (mattress in far left corner) and three single men, in an apartment in Belaya Dacha suburb; in the right corner is a Thổ Địa (Spirits of the Place) altar
Photo 12 A room shared by eight people in Mekong hostel
Photo 14 An en suite room shared by six people in the Red Chinese Dormitory (Ốp Tàu đỏ)
Photo 16 The inconspicuous façade of a building housing several illegal garment factories (xưởng may đen)
Photo 18 The night shift at an illegal garment factory
Photo 19 Sleeping quarters inside an illegal garment factory
Uncertainty and market moralities
Each person for themselves
Money matters
Provisional intimacies
‘Better safe than sorry’
What’s love got to do with it? Narratives of sex, money and morality
I’m here to make money, not to live
Consumption as belonging
Renegotiating the ‘Con buôn’ identity
Conclusion
Methodology
Table 2 Socio-economic profile of research participants
References
Index