The middle space of migration: A case study on brokerage and recruitment agencies in Nepal
The middle space of migration: A case study on brokerage and recruitment agencies in Nepal
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.024
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Mueller-Boeker, Ulrike
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作者：
Kern, Alice;Mueller-Boeker, Ulrike
外国就业已成为一种全球现象。随着跨国劳动迁移的商业化和形式化的日益增长，招聘机构和代理人变得重要。该论文旨在为对主要参与者在移民中间的角色和实践（在迁移的中间空间，招募跨国迁移过程中的经纪人）中的作用和实践有所不同。基于尼泊尔的经验材料，它认为劳动经纪人的负面声誉仅是部分合理的。除了常见的不良做法和欺诈案件外，招聘人员还为促进跨国流动性扮演重要角色，并提出了劳动迁移的必要基础设施。他们将人和地方联系起来，建立网络并可以在使迁移更安全方面发挥重要作用。经纪人是支持替代性收入策略和人们的新生计选择的重要促进者。同时，他们是企业家在一个竞争和风险的经济领域，面临多方面的约束。只要潜在移民的梦想与尼泊尔的边缘性现实之间的差距仍然很广泛，劳动经纪人可能会继续是全球工作的重要中间人。因此，迁移经纪可能会继续大企业。 （c）2015 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。
Foreign employment has become a global phenomenon. With the increasing commercialisation and formalisation of transnational labour migration, recruitment agencies and agents have gained importance. The paper aims to contribute to a more differentiated understanding of the role and the practices of the main actors in the middle space of migration, the brokers in the recruitment process for transnational migration. Based on empirical material from Nepal, it argues that the detected negative reputation of labour brokers is only partially justified. Besides common bad practices and fraud cases, recruiters perform important roles for the facilitation of transnational mobility and present the necessary infrastructure for labour migration. They connect people and places, establish networks and can play an important role in making migration safer. Brokers are important facilitators in supporting alternative income strategies and new livelihood options of people. At the same time they are entrepreneurs in a competitive and risky economic field, confronted with multifaceted constraints. As long as the gap between the dreams of potential migrants and the reality of marginality in Nepal remains wide, labour brokers might persist as important middlemen for global work. Thus, migration brokerage is likely to remain big business. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.