My research examines labor brokerage sustaining migration infrastructures in Asia and North America. It examines the role of the Nepali state, employment-recruitment agencies, and educational consultancies in outmigration to Malaysia, Japan and the United States. It draws on the interdisciplinary debate of international migration, low-wage labor regularization, and cross-border economies.
Anthropology of Work Review 40(1) Jun 2019 [Refereed]
This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor precarity, with regards to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum-seeking accounts intersect with, interrupt, and above all, infor...
This article contributes to the current scholarship on migration brokerage and infrastructure by revealing the contingent, experimental, and dynamic nature of recruiting work for foreign-employment recruitment agencies (FERAs) in Nepal. By situati...
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...
“Kaagaz banaune: The collective practice of moral suffering in the asylum experience of Nepalis in the United States”
Tina Shrestha
Studies in Nepali History and Society 20(1) 6-30 Jan 2016 [Refereed]
This article explores the dual process of kagaj banaune (“making paper”) and duhkha (“suffering”) among Nepalis in the United States (U.S.). In particular, it traces specific ways in which it materializes and, in turn, is reinforced through people...
“‘Learning English, speaking Hindi’: the paradox of language integration among Nepalis in the United States”
Tina Shrestha
Refugee Resettlement in the United States 95-116 Dec 2015 [Refereed][Invited]
This chapter reflects on the interconnection between English language acquisition and everyday work experiences among Nepali migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers attending English Language classes in a Nepali grassroots, workers' rights organiza...
