UID:
edoccha_9959648543702883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780801462207
,
0801462207
,
080147602X
,
0801448824
,
9780801448829
,
9780801476020
Content:
Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the Persian Gulf states and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization. "Andrew M. Gardner expertly combines in-depth ethnography with theoretical sophistication in this important look at the complex linkages between labor, migration, globalization, and the structural violence that accompanies the new world economic order. Gardner follows the labyrinthine paths of migrant workers in the Gulf, drawing on powerful qualitative data to complicate existing assumptions about the lives of skilled and unskilled workers in the Middle East's fastest growing region. Beautifully written and compelling, the book sheds light on a population and area of the world that remains understudied despite its rapid emergence onto the global market."?Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College.
Note:
""Contents""; ""acknowledgments""; ""city of strangers""; ""introduction""; ""pearls, oil, and the british empire""; ""foreign labor in peril""; ""strategic transnationalism""; ""the public sphere""; ""contested identities, contested positions""; ""the invigorated state""; ""conclusion""; ""notes""; ""references""; ""index""
Language:
English
URL:
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