{"product_id":"9789819587346","title":"Agents of Migration Institutional Embeddedness of Labour Brokerage in Nepal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAgents of Migration\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eInstitutional Embeddedness of Labour Brokerage in Nepal\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSandhya A.S.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book responds to the growing presence of “middle elements”—intermediaries and migration agents—in the facilitation of labour migration and advances an economic sociological explanation for their rising relevance in the contemporary migration landscape. Rather than treating the proliferation of agents as an organic development of neoliberal capitalism or attributing migrant precarity solely to their mediation, the book reconceptualizes brokerage as an institutionally constituted and contested market of migration services. It argues that a market perspective offers fresh insights into why migration agents consolidate into a durable industry, how brokerage serves the interests of labour exporting, remittance-dependent emigration states such as Nepal, and why intermediaries persist despite the stabilization of migrant social networks and the expansion of state mechanisms that replicate and attempt to replace commercial brokerage. By examining market organization, the sedimentation of its practices, and struggles over market legitimacy, the book reveals how brokerage reshapes state– market relations, governance structures, and migrant labour processes for readers interested in migration, sociology of work, labour and migration policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandhya A.S.\u003c\/strong\u003e is Postdoctoral Researcher in the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded Research Training Group “Cross-border labor markets: Transnational market makers, infrastructures, institutions”, at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research and publications combine ethnographic and sociological approaches to the study of migrant labour markets, welfare and migrant social protection, immobility, brokerage, and state–market linkages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819587346\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e222\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46313898705036,"sku":"9789819587346","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819587346.jpg?v=1780604501","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789819587346","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}