Mediating the global [electronic resource] : expatria's forms and consequences in Kathmandu / Heather Hindman.
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BookPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.Description: viii, 277 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): - Foreign workers -- Nepal -- Kathmandu -- Social life and customs
- Professional employees -- Nepal -- Kathmandu -- Social life and customs
- International agencies -- Officials and employees -- Nepal -- Kathmandu
- International business enterprises -- Nepal -- Kathmandu -- Employees
- Labor and globalization -- Nepal -- Kathmandu
- Culture and globalization -- Nepal -- Kathmandu
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- HD8670.9.Z8 K374 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : expatria in Nepal -- Conjunctures of mediations : the historical logics of expatriate Nepal -- Families that fail : the mechanisms and labor of productivity -- Market basket economics : the practice of paperwork and shopping like an expatriate -- The protean expatriate : flexibility and the modern worker -- Saving business from culture : cross-cultural training and multicultural performances -- Living in expatria : institutions and the mobile community -- Conclusion : Kathmandu's twenty-first-century expatria.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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