Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal

The Governmentality and Marketization of Transnational Labor

von Hannah Uprety

378 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• ISBN: 9783837662122
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2022
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript