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Bracketed Belonging : Gurkha Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives
| Τίτλος: | Bracketed Belonging : Gurkha Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives |
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| Περιγραφή: | Bracketed Belonging addresses how nations and their governance of security determine social constellations and shape socio-political and legal assertions of belonging and allegiance. Kelvin E. Y. Low examines the contours and limits of belonging that underlie the complex social contract between mobile migrants and nations in the context of a global military-security market. He explores these core themes through the case of Nepali Gurkhas and their families as military and paramilitary migrants. Recruited to serve in the military or police force, Gurkhas are trained in jungle warfare skills that other police groups do not possess. There is thus the professional link to military training and the formation of a unique paramilitary police force with the backdrop of colonialism. In these contexts, this book offers fresh perspectives on studying global security, migration and diasporic lives. It sets a new agenda by analytically bridging empire, military and security maneuvers, and migratory pathways and options. In doing so, Bracketed Belonging serves as a novel contribution to current scholarship on migration and transnationalism, and on police and security studies. |
| Συγγραφείς: | Kelvin E. Y. Low |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Θέματα: | Belonging (Social psychology), Gorkha (South Asian people)--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity, Gurkha soldiers--Employment--Foreign countries, Private security services--Employees--Relocation, Private military companies--Employees--Relocation, Transnationalism--Social aspects, Gorkha (South Asian people)--Migrations |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, HISTORY / Military / Land Forces |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | eBook Index |
| ISBN: | 9781501781612 9781501781629 9781501781636 |
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