Making mobility a market: an economic sociology of migration brokerage
This dissertation develops an economic sociological perspective on the ongoing practices and processes of migrant labor brokerage in Nepal. It utilises Nepal as an instrumental case study to analyse recent developments in the way labour migration is organised transnationally by profit-seeking actor...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2024
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This dissertation develops an economic sociological perspective on the ongoing practices and processes of migrant labor brokerage in Nepal. It utilises Nepal as an instrumental case study to analyse recent developments in the way labour migration is organised transnationally by profit-seeking actors known as brokers or intermediaries. Existing scholarly work in the fields of sociology and migration studies exhibits a bias towards a network-oriented approach to explaining brokerage. Such a pe... |
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