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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- 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