City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

City of Strangers Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, Andrew, 1969- (-)
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press 2010.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Ethnology > Bahrain.
East Indians > Violence against > Bahrain.
Foreign workers, East Indian > Violence against > Bahrain.
East Indians > Bahrain.
Foreign workers, East Indian > Bahrain.
Bahrain > Ethnic relations.
Bahrain > Emigration and immigration.
India > Emigration and immigration.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425206906719
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.

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