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...

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