Bracketed Belonging

Gurkha Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives

Kelvin E. Y. Low (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8161-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Kelvin E.Y. Low is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. His core research interests include sensory studies, migration and transnationalism, foodways and heritage, and social memory and historiography. He is the author of Sensory Anthropology.

Introduction: Gurkhas and Bracketed Belonging
1. Constructing a Gurkha Diaspora
2. The Warrior Gurkha
3. The Migrant Gurkha
4. Gurkha Wives and Children
5. At the Edge of Belonging?
Conclusion: In the Wake of Empire

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
Zusatzinfo	7 b&w halftones, 2 maps - 7 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-8161-8 / 1501781618
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-8161-2 / 9781501781612
Zustand	Neuware