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From the Pamir frontier to international borders: Exchange relations of the borderland population

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This paper deals with a population dependent on interregional goods exchange for their basic needs, and will discuss the opportunities and restrictions that have arisen from past delimitations of the frontier region and present reconfigurations of the borders enclosing the post-Soviet Pamirs.

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Kraudzun, T. (2012). From the Pamir frontier to international borders: Exchange relations of the borderland population. In: Bruns, B., Miggelbrink, J. (eds) Subverting Borders. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93273-6_9

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