City of Strangers Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

Name: City of Strangers Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
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ISBN: 9780801476020

ISBN-10: 080147602X

ISBN-13: 9780801476020

Edition: 2011

Authors: Andrew M. Gardner

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


Notes


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