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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Uprety, Hannah

Titel

Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal : The Governmentality and Marketization of Transnational Labor

Ist Teil von

• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Ort / Verlag

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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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