Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal: The Governmentality and Marketization of Transnational Labor (Culture and Social Practice)

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.

• | Author: Hannah Uprety
• | Publisher: transcript publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 378 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3837662128
• | ISBN-13: 9783837662122