The strongest version of this narrative is that Jeppe’s "chaos" is a misnomer—it is, in fact, a highly organized, transnational economic hub that thrives despite systemic oppression. Zack’s work steelmans the argument that informal economies are not failures of governance but adaptive responses to exclusionary global systems. The book’s strength lies in its ethnographic depth, humanizing migrants while exposing the structural violence of state and capitalist forces. It avoids romanticizing infor...