City of strangers Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain /
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
2010.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.