City of Strangers : : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / / Andrew M. Gardner.
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...
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Gardner, Andrew M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / Andrew M. Gardner. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (208 p.) : 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pearls, Oil, and the British Empire -- 3. Foreign Labor in Peril -- 4. Strategic Transnationalism -- 5. The Public Sphere -- 6. Contested Identities, Contested Positions -- 7. The Invigorated State -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 unrestricted online access star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022) East Indians Violence against Bahrain. East Indians Bahrain. Foreign workers, East Indian Violence against Bahrain. Foreign workers, East Indian Bahrain. African Hist & Diaspora. Anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 print 9780801448829 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462207?locatt=mode:legacy Open Access 0 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462207 Open Access 0 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462207/original |
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