Unsettling the American Dream
Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3883729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tashi W Gurung (0000-0003-0714-8860, corresponding author), Emily Amburgey, R Craig (0000-0002-6760-762X), Sienna R Craig |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1277-1300 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12670 |
| PMID | 34548675 |
| OpenAlex | W3178908402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
New York City (NYC) garnered significant national and international attention when it emerged as the coronavirus epicentre in the USA, in spring 2020. As has been widely documented, this crisis has disproportionately impacted minority, immigrant and marginalized communities. Among those affected were people from Mustang, Nepal, a Himalayan region bordering Tibet. This community is often rendered invisible within larger Asian immigrant populations, but the presence of Mustangis in the US has transformed their translocal worlds, lived between Nepal and NYC. Seasonal mobility and life-stage wage labour in cosmopolitan Asia have been common in Mustang for decades. More permanent moves to NYC began in the 1990s. These migrations were based on assumptions about attaining financial stability in the US in ways deemed unattainable in Nepal. An ethnographic focus on one translocal Mustangi family frames this discussion of how COVID-19 has overturned previously held ideas around migration to NYC and uncovered new forms of precarity. The authors build on theories of transnationalism and translocality to position migration as a cyclical process whereby the well-being of Mustangis in Nepal and NYC rests on the reliability of global migratory networks and translocal kinship relations - a basis for security and belonging that COVID-19 has challenged and reconfigured
Development economics · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Kinship · Political science · Precarity · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Disparities in Covid-19 Testing and Positivity in New York City
Globalization and Its Discontents
The production of locality
Vulnerable Immigrant Populations in the New York Metropolitan Area and Covid-19
The Navel of the Demoness
Arrested Histories
Nations Unbound
Migration, Social Change, Health, and the Realm of the Possible
Depopulating the Himalayan Highlands
A Genealogy of Precarity
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
Cosmologies of Credit
Kinship and Religious Practices as Institutionalization of Trade Networks
Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change
Migration and other Modes of Transnationalism
Voices of the Governed
Migration and the invisible economies of care
Trans-Himalayan power corridors
Facing the fence
China's Belt and Road Initiative
Disaster Financialization
Precarity and agency through a migration lens
Making Mountain Places into State Spaces
(Un)settled sojourners in cities
The Land of Open Graves
The Ends of Kinship
Precarity's Forms
Asylum-Seeking Work, Precariousness, and the Making of Claimant-Workers
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Agrarian questions of labor in urban India
The study of transnationalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |