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X-WR-CALNAME:Anthropology Colloquium:  Sampreety Gurung
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DESCRIPTION:Temporariness and Belonging in a “free country”\n\nIn Malay
 sia\, the incorporation of Nepali\, mostly male\, migrants as “foreign w
 orkers” has created the conditions within which they have come to see th
 emselves as “foreigners” or just “workers” in “someone else’s 
 place” (arkako thau). On the other hand\, frequent references to Malaysi
 a as a “free country”—where one can freely roam around and indulge i
 n sex and alcohol unlike the Gulf where “one can’t even look a girl in
  the eye”\; where people “forget” their country and family and “di
 sappear” never to return\; and where the hawapani (air and water) is\, i
 f not the same\, better than Nepal—also signal forms of belonging. While
  these narratives reflect betrayal as an absent provider to both family an
 d the nation\, they also reflect failures and deviance from normative scri
 pts and bounds of respectability and law and reveal a world of contestatio
 n\, where ways of being otherwise exist not despite but through their part
 icular predicaments as “foreign workers.” The talk examines 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 candidate i
 n the Department of Anthropology at Cornell.
LOCATION:120 Mary Ann Wood Drive\, B21
SUMMARY:Anthropology Colloquium:  Sampreety Gurung
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/anthropology-colloquium-samp
 reety-gurung
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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