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DESCRIPTION:Temporariness and Belonging in a “free country”\n\nIn Malaysia\
 , the incorporation of Nepali\, mostly male\, migrants as “foreign workers”
  has created the conditions within which they have come to see themselves a
 s “foreigners” or just “workers” in “someone else’s place” (arkako thau). O
 n the other hand\, frequent references to Malaysia as a “free country”—wher
 e one can freely roam around and indulge in sex and alcohol unlike the Gulf
  where “one can’t even look a girl in the eye”\; where people “forget” thei
 r country and family and “disappear” never to return\; and where the hawapa
 ni (air and water) is\, if not the same\, better than Nepal—also signal for
 ms of belonging. While these narratives reflect betrayal as an absent provi
 der to both family and the nation\, they also reflect failures and deviance
  from normative scripts and bounds of respectability and law and reveal a w
 orld of contestation\, where ways of being otherwise exist not despite but 
 through their particular predicaments as “foreign workers.” The talk examin
 es this dual sense of exclusion and inclusion through which Nepali migrants
  experience work and life in Malaysia and asks what life-making and freedom
  might mean in a context of enforced temporariness.\n\nSampreety is a PhD c
 andidate in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell.
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LOCATION:120 Mary Ann Wood Drive\, B21
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SUMMARY:Anthropology Colloquium:  Sampreety Gurung
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/anthropology-colloquium-sampreety-guru
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