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City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
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- Condition
- Book Title
- City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bah
- Genre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- ISBN
- 9780801476020
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Subject
- Transportation, Anthropology, History
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia to the Gulf states and contractually links each laborer to a specific citizen or institution. In order to remain in Bahrain, the worker is almost entirely dependent on his sponsor's goodwill. The nature of this relationship, Gardner contends, often leads to exploitation and sometimes violence. Through extensive observation and interviews Gardner focuses on three groups in Bahrain: the unskilled Indian laborers who make up the most substantial portion of the foreign workforce on the island; the country's entrepreneurial and professional Indian middle class; and Bahraini state and citizenry. He contends that the social segregation and structural violence produced by Bahrain's kafala system result from a strategic arrangement by which the state insulates citizens from the global and neoliberal flows that, paradoxically, are central to the nation's intended path to the future. City of Strangers contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801476020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93315994
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Transportation, Anthropology, History
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm
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United States
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