Hannah Uprety, Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal: The governmentality and marketization of transnational labor

If there is a key feature that broadly defines Nepal’s social and economic geography at this historical juncture it is migration and remittances. Although patterns may vary across the country's geography, castes, genders and ethnicities, hardly any rural and urban spaces have been left unaffected by migration and remittances. Added to this, the country’s overall economy and social structures have undergone some level of transformation, though Nepal is no exception in Asia as far as experienc...