| Brokers maneuvering il/legal terrains of gendered labour migration control between Nepal and the Gulf countries
The overall purpose of this project is to explore the states restrictive gendered labour migration control, and how the actors in the infrastructure of migration handle and challenge these restrictions while navigating the labour recruitment process in sending and receiving countries.
Nepal is used as the main case study for this project due to an extensive labour migration to the Gulf countries. The remittances sent back consist of 30% of the GDP (the second highest in the world), which makes the Nepali government strongly dependent on its citizen’s labour migration. Nevertheless, since the 1990s until today Nepal have regulations and bans on women’s labour migration imposed by the government that have forced women to migrate illegally.
Due to regulations and the bureaucratic process involved in labour migration a large amount of private commercial actors, recruitment agencies, agents and more informal brokers, have been established facilitating migrants’ mobility. The project focuses on the brokers’ understandings of the governments gendered out migration policies and how these policies interplay with the brokers interactions and everyday practises in the gendered recruitment process, and what consequences these restrictions have for women’s and men’s il/legal migration.
The project will contribute with empirical and theoretical knowledge about the processes connecting the protective but restrictive gendered migration control and the gendered labour recruitment process. |