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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2023-08-152023-08-242023
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
xi, 206
Publishing info:
Cologne : University of Duisburg-Essen
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Acknowledgments
List of Figures, Images and Tables
Abbreviations and acronyms
Notes on the use of language, images and reference style
Chapter 1
Introduction
1. Review of Literature
1.1. “Significance of the third element” in Sociology
1.2. ‘Middle space of migration’: Study of migration institution, infrastructure and industry
1.3. Research gaps and questions
1.4. Theoretical framework and conceptual scaffolding
2. Research Design
2.1. Methods, data collection and analysis
2.2. Case selection and relevance
3. Structure of the dissertation
Chapter 2
Actors and processes in migrant labour brokerage: A historical overview of the ‘middle-space’ of temporary labour migration
1. Introduction
2. From Networks to Hierarchy
2.1. Early network-based organization of mobility
2.2. Birth of the ‘legal’ temporary migrant
3. The Asian turn to markets as an organizing principle of mobility
4. From control to “management”: Paradigm shift in migration governance
5. Conclusion
PART I: STATE
Chapter 3
Becoming a labour exporting country: Nepal’s encounters with development, market and migration
1. Introduction
2. Bikās and Nepal’s structural dependence on foreign capital
2.1. Constructing a ‘culture’ of migration: gender roles, modernity and mobility in Nepal
3. State brokerage practices in Nepal
3.1. Research and Promotion
3.2. Authorization and legitimacy
3.3. Return
4. Key state relations emerging in migration management
4.1. State-migrant interaction: The double movement dilemma
4.2. State-state relations: Beyond labour diplomacy
4.3. NGOs and ‘development partners’
5. Conclusion
Chapter 4
Market as a vehicle of development
1. Introduction
2. Migration policies and the making of Nepalese migrant recruitment industry
2.1. From regulation to facilitation of out-migration
2.2. Market-Making and institutionalization of migration
3. Delegation of migration management in Nepal
3.1. Informal contracting of the task
3.2. Scope and limitations of monitoring the task
3.3. Transferring accountability of migration mismanagement
4. Conclusion
PART II: MARKET
Chapter 5
“How things get done”: Culture, perceptions and practices in the migrant recruitment business
1. Introduction
2. Market-mapping
2.1. ‘Dirty money’: Source of income and market identity
2.2. Legality and encounters with bureaucracy
3. Culture as the basis of market order
3.1. Flow of money and information in the market
3.2. Culture of informality and its social acceptance
4. Incongruence of “appropriate” behaviour and regulatory inconsistencies: An example
5. Conclusion
Chapter 6
Beyond recruitment: Locating the role of brokers in the organization of labour migration
1. Introduction
2. Approaching the role of brokers in coordinating labour migration
3. Key aspects of migrant labour brokerage
3.1. Stocking-up and circulating migrant labour
3.2. Creating and channelling demand for Nepalese workers
3.3. Skilling as “making it work”
4. Contextualising brokerage
5. Conclusion
Chapter 7
Conclusion
1. Migrant labour brokerage in Nepal: its form, practices and consequences
2. Empirical and theoretical contributions of the study
3. Limitations of the study and way forward
Postscript
Addressing inconsistent findings and alternative brokerage practices
1. Introduction
2. Forced immobility and restrictions on labour migration: Female migration in Nepal
3. Establishing “market-free” migration corridors: Example of South Korea, Israel and Japan
4. Illegality and de-contraction of the market: Case of the Pandemic
4.1. Crisis as experienced by the brokers
4.2. ‘Blockage’ in migration bureaucracy
4.3. Disordering and market-(un)making
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Rev. Type:
-
Degree:
PhD
