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Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal : The Governmentality and Marketization of Transnational Labor / Hannah Uprety.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783839462126
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- 1.1 Nepali Labor Migration in the Global Economy -- 1.2 Research Approach and Guiding Questions -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- 2 Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- 2.1 Towards a Political Geography of Labor Migration -- 2.2 Conceptualizing the Governmentality of Migration -- 2.3 The Marketization of Migrant Labor -- 2.4 Assembling the Conceptual Building Blocks -- 3 Methodological Approaches towards an Ethnography of Government -- Introduction -- 3.1 Identifying the Research Context -- 3.2 Ethnographic Research Approach and Practice -- 3.3 Specific Tools of Analysis -- 4 Analysis: The Governmentality of Nepali Labor Migration -- Introduction -- 4.1 Governing through Recruitment -- 4.2 Governing Market Encounters -- 4.3 Governing through Instruction -- 4.4 Discussion: Governing Nepali Labor Migration and Migrant Subjectivities -- 5 Conclusion -- Introduction -- 5.1 Governing Nepali Migrant Subjects—a Synopsis -- 5.2 Conceptual and Methodological Contributions -- 5.3 Empirical Contributions and Implications -- References -- Article's References -- Newspaper Articles -- Cited Primary Sources -- Appendix: Interview Guidelines -- Example 1: Guideline Recruitment Agencies (2018) -- Example 2: Guideline Technical Skill Training Institutes (2018
Summary: High-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthinkable without the low-wage employment of migrant workers. But which cultural, economic, and political infrastructures in the »source« countries make these types of migration possible in the first place? Based on multi-sensory ethnographic research in Nepal, Hannah Uprety retraces the practices of recruitment and instruction that - step by step - transform Nepali labor into an internationally marketable commodity. In doing so, she uncovers a migration regime that effectively turns local men and women into »migrant workers« before they even leave the country.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- 1.1 Nepali Labor Migration in the Global Economy -- 1.2 Research Approach and Guiding Questions -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- 2 Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- 2.1 Towards a Political Geography of Labor Migration -- 2.2 Conceptualizing the Governmentality of Migration -- 2.3 The Marketization of Migrant Labor -- 2.4 Assembling the Conceptual Building Blocks -- 3 Methodological Approaches towards an Ethnography of Government -- Introduction -- 3.1 Identifying the Research Context -- 3.2 Ethnographic Research Approach and Practice -- 3.3 Specific Tools of Analysis -- 4 Analysis: The Governmentality of Nepali Labor Migration -- Introduction -- 4.1 Governing through Recruitment -- 4.2 Governing Market Encounters -- 4.3 Governing through Instruction -- 4.4 Discussion: Governing Nepali Labor Migration and Migrant Subjectivities -- 5 Conclusion -- Introduction -- 5.1 Governing Nepali Migrant Subjects—a Synopsis -- 5.2 Conceptual and Methodological Contributions -- 5.3 Empirical Contributions and Implications -- References -- Article's References -- Newspaper Articles -- Cited Primary Sources -- Appendix: Interview Guidelines -- Example 1: Guideline Recruitment Agencies (2018) -- Example 2: Guideline Technical Skill Training Institutes (2018

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High-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthinkable without the low-wage employment of migrant workers. But which cultural, economic, and political infrastructures in the »source« countries make these types of migration possible in the first place? Based on multi-sensory ethnographic research in Nepal, Hannah Uprety retraces the practices of recruitment and instruction that - step by step - transform Nepali labor into an internationally marketable commodity. In doing so, she uncovers a migration regime that effectively turns local men and women into »migrant workers« before they even leave the country.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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