

@mastersthesis {6887,
	title = {Crafting solutions in {Tajikistan}: {How} the fair trade market can empower the abandoned wives of labor migrants},
	year = {2013},
	note = {1525170},
	school = {Southern Connecticut State University},
	type = {phdM.{A}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {One million men travel from Tajikistan to Russia every year to find work. Low wages and racial discrimination prevent many laborers from obtaining a substantial income for their families. Meanwhile, the migrant wives back in Tajikistan are likely to face economic and psychological hurdles. Many of the women who are abandoned by their husbands might try to economically sustain themselves through unhealthy survival methods such as polygamy or prostitution. This thesis explores how implementing fair trade into Tajik society can benefit divorced or widowed migrant wives in the country{\textquoteright}s slow economy. The fair trade movement allows disadvantaged individuals in developing countries to produce and sell traditional handcrafts on an international market that guarantees fair wages and safe working conditions. Tajik artisans have already made efforts to sustain themselves through the production of crafts, but fair trade companies have not made any efforts to work in the country. If women from Tajikistan were given the opportunity to participate in this movement, they can join a wide network of artisans, advocates, and shoppers who share the common goal of creating social change. They would also be able to pay their children{\textquoteright}s school fees, ensure that their communities have safe drinking water, and keep their families financially stable. Most importantly, fair trade will help to shrink the economic gap between men and women and give abandoned wives the independence they need to stand on their own.},
	keywords = {0453:Womens studies, Fair Trade, Labor Migration, Russia, Social sciences, Tajikistan, Womens studies},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/1517934029?accountid=14270},
	author = {Lombardi, Therese}
}
