@book{2022:uprety:becoming_a,
title = {Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal},
year = {2022},
note = {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.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Kultur und soziale Praxis},
volume = {0},
author = {Uprety, Hannah}
}