"Oxon" . . "Routledge" . "Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale" . "Azerbaijani petty traders have been well known in Russia, already from late socialist period onwards. Petty trade is of many kinds but Azerbaijani citizens from a particular rayon have been specialized as fresh herb traders in Moscow and this chapter follows the story of such a young trader, who left for Russia in early 2000 to try out his luck with this petty trade, made his way to becoming a whole-sale seller in Moscow?s Azerbaijani market, then switched from trading herbs to renting land for cultivating vegetables in Russia and later expanded his business to become a shop owner of clothing and textiles in Moscow. The discussion is as much on his biography and passage as the links and transformation of his kin and friendship networks back in his home village. In a way the chapter takes the story of a family who sends a member away and has to cope with his absence and migration trajectories. Stories of migration are intrinsically related to informal economy in Azerbaijan and this family?s story is exemplary for many such individual and family biographies, where gains and losses within the informal economy accompanies the lives of family members, shaping their relationship to one another and breaking ties as well as making new alliances between siblings, parents and sons and old and new generations."@en . "Informal economy writ large and small: from Azerbaijani herb traders to Moscow shop owners"@en . "978-0-415-85491-7" . "[772841FDB18E]" . "80116" . . "RIV/00216275:25210/13:39897369!RIV14-MSM-25210___" . "Informal economy writ large and small: from Azerbaijani herb traders to Moscow shop owners" . . "1"^^ . . . . "The Informal Post-socialist Economy" . "25210" . "Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale" . "Informal economy writ large and small: from Azerbaijani herb traders to Moscow shop owners"@en . "Informal economy writ large and small: from Azerbaijani herb traders to Moscow shop owners" . "RIV/00216275:25210/13:39897369" . "Azerbaijani petty traders have been well known in Russia, already from late socialist period onwards. Petty trade is of many kinds but Azerbaijani citizens from a particular rayon have been specialized as fresh herb traders in Moscow and this chapter follows the story of such a young trader, who left for Russia in early 2000 to try out his luck with this petty trade, made his way to becoming a whole-sale seller in Moscow?s Azerbaijani market, then switched from trading herbs to renting land for cultivating vegetables in Russia and later expanded his business to become a shop owner of clothing and textiles in Moscow. The discussion is as much on his biography and passage as the links and transformation of his kin and friendship networks back in his home village. In a way the chapter takes the story of a family who sends a member away and has to cope with his absence and migration trajectories. Stories of migration are intrinsically related to informal economy in Azerbaijan and this family?s story is exemplary for many such individual and family biographies, where gains and losses within the informal economy accompanies the lives of family members, shaping their relationship to one another and breaking ties as well as making new alliances between siblings, parents and sons and old and new generations." . . . . "1"^^ . . "21"^^ . . . . "I" . . "188"^^ . . "Informal economy; Azerbaijani; Migration; Petty trade"@en .