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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Uprety, Hannah,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)

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.

Table of 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