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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : ILR Press,, 2010. ©2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states
- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain
- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat
- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite
- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community
- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere
- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state
- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.