Impossible Citizens Dubai's Indian Diaspora

Name: Impossible Citizens Dubai's Indian Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780822353935

ISBN-10: 0822353938

ISBN-13: 9780822353935

Edition: 2013

Authors: Neha Vora

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Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now comprise its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. InImpossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness.While their legal status defines…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.33" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Exceptions & Exceptionality in Dubai



A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai



An Indian City?: Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai



Between Global City & Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging



Exceeding The Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class Dubai Indians



Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized Education


Conclusion


Reassessing Gulf Studies


Citizenship, Democracy, and the Political


Notes


Bibliography


Index