Conclusion
摘要
This concluding chapter synthesizes the key arguments of the book and reflects on their implications for our understanding of brokerage and governance of labour migration in Nepal. The book proposed the reconceptualization of brokerage as a service provided by a market to advance our knowledge of state-market relations in the context of migration. It argued that a market analysis offers numerous theoretical and methodological advantages to enrich our exiting perspectives on why migration agents become relevant and how they proliferate despite the presence of stabilized social networks and state mechanisms replicating brokerage. It draws together insights from the preceding chapters, with each chapter focussing on a different aspect of market analysis—making of the market, sedimentation of its practices and legitimization—to show how the state’s role has evolved from regulator to facilitator of labour mobility, and how this transformation has reconfigured market relations, governance structures and migrant labour process. The chapter situates these findings within broader debates on the marketization of migration and the emerging role of emigration states.