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SPECTOR, REGINE A
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Manufacturing and migration in Eurasia
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Spector, Regine A
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This article investigates the social foundations of apparel manufacturing in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon interviews and a survey of Bishkek-based workshop owners, a bottom-up analysis finds that many are family businesses that started producing clothing after the country’s independence in 1991. I discuss here how they acquired the capital and knowledge necessary for this business, and how they mobilised a variety of migration-related experiences and relationships—often related to bazaar work—to compete in the sector. The findings contribute to a growing literature on how migration can facilitate family-based manufacturing in the post-Soviet region, although not without significant costs and challenges.
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Migration
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Kyrgyzstan
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Eurasia
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Manufacturing
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Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan
/ Botoeva, Aisalkyn; Spector, Regine A
Botoeva, Aisalkyn
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This article focuses on the reassembling of apparel production in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. We contribute to this special issue on well-being in Central Asia by examining how individual craft-based apparel producers (a subset of producers in the apparel industry) describe the process through which they built upon their Soviet past and reoriented their professional trajectories in a new competitive market environment. These producers locate professional satisfaction in their ability to draw upon and creatively re-employ local knowledge and experience learned in Soviet institutions, ultimately - as they articulate and perceive - deriving pride and well-being from the process of selling highly regarded ethnically inspired apparel products both at home and abroad.
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Political Economy
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Development
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Central Asia
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Kyrgyzstan
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Identity
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Manufacturing
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Craft
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Well - being
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Apparel and Textile Sector
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