The Global Political Economy of Race and Gender in Private Military and Security Company Labour Chains: Interviews with Gurkhas and Their Families, 2017

This dataset is from detailed ethnographic semi-structured interviews I conducted with Gurkhas wives, whose husbands now work in the private security industry. The interviews took place throughout Nepal and the main objective was to glean insight into their everyday lives, how they experience the security industry as the wives who support their husbands and to better account for all the emotional and reproductive labour they do. At times the husbands were present during the interviews and sometimes children. The main focus of these interviews were on the wives though. I have protected their identities by using alternative names and at times not disclosing where in Nepal the interviews took place. The interviews took place in 2017 between April and September. The transcripts uploaded are the only ones that I was given explicit consent to share publicly via open access, the but issues and themes raises are reflective of all the interviews I conducted with wives of armed and unarmed security contractors coming from Nepal for work in Afghanistan and throughout the Gulf.