Tina Shrestha
Biographic Data
| ID | 163784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Shrestha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrestha |
| SIGNATURE | SHRESTHA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4557-5927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Academic parenthood and ambivalent choice
In this auto‐ethnography, I draw attention to the inverse relationship between my career trajectory and scholarly productivity to develop a notion of academic parenthood. Importantly, I situate it within the wider feminist scholarship, especially feminist discourse on ambivalent choice and “closure as a political possibility” for the emergence of academic parent of color. Here, I emphasize this emergence as neither linear nor singular but manifes…
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration
Infrastructural casualties
This article explores the mutual restructuring of migration infrastructure and international student mobility in contemporary Japan. Through ethnography in an emergent Nepali migrant community, specifically, the experience of student-workers, the essay elucidates the joint effect of migrant labor subordination and casualization of student workforce. Using the case of former and current Nepali students enrolled in Japanese language schools (nihong…
Troubled Transit
Asylum-Seeking Work, Precariousness, and the Making of Claimant-Workers
This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor precarity, with regard to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum-seeking accounts intersect with, interrupt, and, above all, inform people's everyday labor activities outside the asylum process. Drawing on my ethnographic research among Nepali migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, I document people's adoption of a famil…
Introduction
This special issue develops brokerage as a historically specific category of practice to investigate its intricate link in shaping and sustaining Asian migration infrastructures. To understand this specific interconnection, the authors focus their analytical lenses on the emergence and functioning of migration infrastructures in the particular socio-cultural contexts of Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea. Reflecting the “Asian inf…
Aspirational Infrastructure
Introduction
This special issue develops brokerage as a historically specific category of practice to investigate its intricate link in shaping and sustaining Asian migration infrastructures. To understand this specific interconnection, the authors focus their analytical lenses on the emergence and functioning of migration infrastructures in the particular socio-cultural contexts of Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea. Reflecting the “Asian inf…
Aspirational Infrastructure
Asylum-Seeking Work, Precariousness, and the Making of Claimant-Workers
This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor precarity, with regard to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum-seeking accounts intersect with, interrupt, and, above all, inform people's everyday labor activities outside the asylum process. Drawing on my ethnographic research among Nepali migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, I document people's adoption of a famil…
Infrastructural casualties
This article explores the mutual restructuring of migration infrastructure and international student mobility in contemporary Japan. Through ethnography in an emergent Nepali migrant community, specifically, the experience of student-workers, the essay elucidates the joint effect of migrant labor subordination and casualization of student workforce. Using the case of former and current Nepali students enrolled in Japanese language schools (nihong…
Introduction
This special issue develops brokerage as a historically specific category of practice to investigate its intricate link in shaping and sustaining Asian migration infrastructures. To understand this specific interconnection, the authors focus their analytical lenses on the emergence and functioning of migration infrastructures in the particular socio-cultural contexts of Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea. Reflecting the “Asian inf…
Aspirational Infrastructure
Troubled Transit
Asylum-Seeking Work, Precariousness, and the Making of Claimant-Workers
This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor precarity, with regard to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum-seeking accounts intersect with, interrupt, and, above all, inform people's everyday labor activities outside the asylum process. Drawing on my ethnographic research among Nepali migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, I document people's adoption of a famil…
Infrastructural casualties
This article explores the mutual restructuring of migration infrastructure and international student mobility in contemporary Japan. Through ethnography in an emergent Nepali migrant community, specifically, the experience of student-workers, the essay elucidates the joint effect of migrant labor subordination and casualization of student workforce. Using the case of former and current Nepali students enrolled in Japanese language schools (nihong…
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration
Academic parenthood and ambivalent choice
In this auto‐ethnography, I draw attention to the inverse relationship between my career trajectory and scholarly productivity to develop a notion of academic parenthood. Importantly, I situate it within the wider feminist scholarship, especially feminist discourse on ambivalent choice and “closure as a political possibility” for the emergence of academic parent of color. Here, I emphasize this emergence as neither linear nor singular but manifes…
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)