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At the Fringes of Legality: Chinese Mobilities in Uneven Geographies of Development.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	At the Fringes of Legality: Chinese Mobilities in Uneven Geographies of Development./
Author:	de Toledo Piza, Douglas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28419480
ISBN:	9798516950551

At the Fringes of Legality: Chinese Mobilities in Uneven Geographies of Development.
de Toledo Piza, Douglas.

At the Fringes of Legality: Chinese Mobilities in Uneven Geographies of Development. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 270 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The New School, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

How is legality deployed as a governing tool in popular markets? Based on my ethnographic study that combines observation, sequential interviewing, and archival research, I argue that the flexible application of legality reconfigures the processes of accumulation of the wealth that circulates in a commodities circuit between Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). Drawing from the Marxist approach of accumulation by dispossession and Foucault's theory of illegalisms, I develop a framework based on the concept of "capture by illegalisms," that is, the uneven enforcement, changes in the economic regulation, and loopholes in the law that restrict low-income overseas Chinese vendors' ability to profit from their economic activities while boosting the popular markets, only to enable accumulation of wealth by a limited group of businesspeople. By looking at the political economy underpinning the activities of overseas Chinese importers, shopkeepers, stallholders, and street vendors, I turn away from the concept of "informality" and the predominant theoretical and conceptual view of the sacoleiro circuit, namely the presupposition that markets like this are the product and engine of a survivalist "informal economy." Rather, I inquire into legality as a malleable governing tool and shed light on how convoluted legal infrastructures of trade and the regulation of street vending transformed unlicensed activities, illicit commodities, and undocumented migrants into vehicles of accumulation. In doing so, I contribute to shifting attention to the productive (in analytical terms only) functions of legality in shaping access to wealth, the role of legality as a political technology that determines actors' ability to participate in the popular markets, and tactics migrants use to redefine the terms of their own mobilities in light of such uses of legality.

ISBN: 9798516950551Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.
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