The middle space of migration
A case study on brokerage and recruitment agencies in Nepal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8945836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Kern (University of Zurich), Ulrike Müller-Böker (0000-0002-2736-1063), Ulrike Müller‐böker (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Pages | 158-169 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.024 |
| OpenAlex | W942464921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 16 |
Agriculture · Business · Geography · Livelihood · Phenomenon · Political science · Process (computing · Reputation · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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La(s) Industria(s) de la Migración. ¿Un Nuevo Enfoque en el Análisis de la Movilidad Internacional
The Precarity of Women’s Short-Term Migration
Exploring the Model of Legal Consciousness Formation Among Foreigners Working in Poland. Preliminary Insights
Brokers betrayed
Hannah Uprety, Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal
Disposability and gendered control in labor migration
De-commercialization of the Labor Migration Industry in Malaysia
After the exodus
The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
‘The broker also told me that I will not have problems after selling because we have two and we can survive on one kidney’
Accidental traffickers
Ce que la migration au Qatar signifie pour les travailleurs népalais
Reintegrating Ghanaian migrant workers returning from Gulf Cooperation countries (GCC)
Thirty Years of Agrarian Change at an Upper Elevation Village in Western Nepal
Transnational Brokers and the Desire for Labour Migration
“They’d Better Really Treat Her Nice”
La retórica del retorno
Remittance Received by Households of Western Chitwan Valley, Nepal
Les experts de la bureaucratie migratoire
Agents of order? Brokerage and empowerment in development and conflict
Coping with migration-related stressors - a qualitative study of Nepali male labour migrants
They Moved to City Areas, Abroad”
Seasonal Migration and Livelihood Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in Nepal
Organizations and geographies of migration
Truck drivers and intermediaries of migration between Central Asia and the EU
Spatial shifts in migration governance
Leveraging the World Cup
Membership intermediaries
Beyond brokering for recruitment
The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation
Framing’ and ‘packaging’ of foreign skilled workers
Of migrants and middlemen
Understanding Nepalese Labor Migration to Gulf Countries
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market
Places of difference
An upside to globalization
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East
Assessing roles and strategies of public sector stakeholders in an evolving (lifestyle) migration industry
Geographies of migration I
Translating People and Policy
When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal
Does Information Improve the Experience of Pursuing Labor Migration? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan
Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors
Admissibility for sale
Providers, pioneers, protectors
Who is not an agent here?”
From global city makers to global city-shapers
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce
Dynamics of immobility
Cross‐border mobility, inequality and migration intermediaries
Contested Ground
The Education‐Migration Industry
Family Obligation Attitudes, Gender, and Migration
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration
Infrastructures of insecurity
Channelling through bureaucracy
Transnational labour migration and livelihoods in rural Asia
The dynamics of migration infrastructure and the governance of marriage migration in South Korea, 1993–2023
Towards an intermediary-shaped migration policy? Strategies of private labour market intermediaries in migration policy-making
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Capacity and Priority
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State Brokerage’ in Migration Infrastructure
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The Way of Migrant Brokers
Supermaids
Making labour mobile
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The rhetoric of return
Educational consultants in Nepal
Mobilising patients towards transnational healthcare markets - insights into the mobilising work of medical travel facilitators in Delhi
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Education-migration brokers, international student mobilities and digital transformations in pre- and post-pandemic times
The enforcement infrastructure of public information campaigns
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Reducing vulnerability to forced labour and trafficking of women migrant workers from South- to West-Asia
Employable femininity and multisensorial hierarchies
Funnels of Unfreedom
Imaginative geographies of international student mobility
Space Matters
Brokerage from within
Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross-border labour market between Japan and Vietnam
Social construction of skill
Please, thank you and sorry - brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana
Temporary labour migration in South Asia
Chutes-and-ladders
Israel's return migration industry
Re-visiting the 'black box' of migration
Infrastructures of migrant precarity
Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka
Dubai
Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Choosing a Destination and Work
Labor Markets and Migration in Nepal
The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
Migration Patterns and Remittance Transfer in Nepal
Standing in the way by standing in the middle
Labour recruitment practices and its class implications
An invitation to reflexive sociology
The role of local brokers in the development system. Experiences with "self‐help projects" in East Africa
Gender and Labour Migration to the Gulf Countries
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| Unique citing works | 100 |
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| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 95 |