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Given the limited economic opportunities in rural Nepal, the desire of young men of all income and education levels, castes and ethnicities to migrate has never been higher. Crossing the Border to India provides an ethnography of male labor migration from the western hills of Nepal to Indian cities. Jeevan Sharma shows how a migrant s livelihood and gender, as well as structural violence impacts his perceptions, experiences, and aspirations.Based on long-term fieldwork, Sharma captures the actual experiences of crossing the border. He shows that Nepali migration to India does not just allow young men from poorer backgrounds to save there and eat here, but also offers a strategy to escape the more regimented social order of the village. Additionally, migrants may benefit from the opportunities offered by the open-border between India and Nepal to attain independence and experience a distant world. However, Nepali migrants are subjected to high levels of ill treatment. Thus, while the idea of freedom remains extremely important in Nepali men s migration decisions, their actual experience is often met with unfreedom and suffering

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Framing Nepal's Social Transformation -- 2 From Subjects to Citizens: Maoist Insurgency and Local Perceptions of Social Change -- 3 Peasantry, Mobility and the Changing Face of Rural Nepal -- 4 Mobility and Educational and Occupational Futures -- 5 Development and Patronage Politics -- 6 Conclusion: Precarity and Paradox in Once-Remote Locations -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

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