Informal Networks in the Black Sea Region

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In 2014, local community members nailed a pig's head to the door of a Muslim boarding house in Kobuleti, a small town in Adjara, to argue that "this is a Christian place". They expressed fears about the building owner, who was thought to be of Turkish origins. Enlargement of the boarding house was perceived as a possible Islamization of the town and increase of transborder flows in the region. In this article, I examine the agency of the boarding houses in Adjara through human and non-human actors. On the other hand, I look at the legal responses of the state and official structures for controlling informalities embedded in the boarding houses’ networks.

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Photo by Shtefan Lounge on Unsplash