Abstract
Contemporary experiences of Han Chinese traders in Hekou, a remote town on the China-Vietnam border inform discussions of permissive politics and entrepreneurial transgression at the peripheries of the state. Permissive politics facilitates the transnational movement of goods across national borders in both formal and informal ways.
Examination of cross-border smuggling as both an everyday strategy of profit-making and an act of ordinary transgression clarifies the ways in which borderland permissiveness normalizes and even rewards certain unauthorized practices on the part of traders, vendors and individuals who undertake entrepreneurial activities.
Examination of cross-border smuggling as both an everyday strategy of profit-making and an act of ordinary transgression clarifies the ways in which borderland permissiveness normalizes and even rewards certain unauthorized practices on the part of traders, vendors and individuals who undertake entrepreneurial activities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 576-601 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Journal | Sojourn |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 14 Jan 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 14 Jan 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The initial accumulated twelve months of fieldwork was funded by Macquarie University, Australia, as part of my doctoral research. The second shorter one-month field trip in 2012 was supported by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
Keywords
- Border trade
- Borders
- China
- Permissiveness
- Smuggling
- Transgression
- Vietnam