Purpose Literature on immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship almost exclusively
focusses on the west, while neglecting other world regions. This neglect is problematic not …

In 2018, the Chinese government established the National Immigration Administration, the
country's first national-level agency dedicated to immigration affairs. Relying on policy …

Yiwu has become one of China's most globally renowned cities since it is home to the
world's largest wholesale marketplace, a fact that previous studies have attributed to a …

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and
informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and …

This article analyses the trajectories of two transnational networks present in the Chinese
city of Yiwu: Afghan merchants who trade goods in and out Afghanistan, Tajikistan and …

This article deals with the changing configuration of regional trade in consumer electronics.
Based on data from ethnographic fieldwork since 2013 at various locations (marketplaces in …

This article investigates how populists at home and maverick dealmakers abroad,
strongman leaders are increasingly side-lining official career diplomats by using informal …

This special issue introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia
and the Caucasus. The research presented here was conducted in Armenia, Georgia …

China has witnessed a remarkable growth in its foreign population over the past two
decades. Even though they are still quite few in number at the moment, foreigners in China …

Through an exploration of oral history and ethnographic material, this article makes a
comparative examination of the life-trajectories of students from Yemen, Iraq, and …