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ca-5841	Zharkevich, Ina	Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal	2025		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	10640	532	65	Whereas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, the institution of debtor prison allowed some debtors to “use their bodies as economic collateral for debts” (Gregory 2012, 434), in nineteenth- and even twentieth-century Nepal, people became bonded laborers or slaves if they could not repay debt. The Gender of Debt: Male Migrants, Spirit Possession, and Death The burden of debt often concealed yet another burden: the pressure on young men by their families—often wives and mothers—to migrate at all costs and provide for the family (Zharkevich 2019b).	cache/ca-5841.htm	txt/ca-5841.txt