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oapen-20.500.12657-315262021-11-09T09:24:03Z City of Strangers Gardner, Andrew M. Anthropology labor labour migration globalization globalisation migrant workers middle east Arab states of the Persian Gulf Bahrain Foreign worker India Structural violence Transmigration program bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the Persian Gulf states and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization. "Andrew M. Gardner expertly combines in-depth ethnography with theoretical sophistication in this important look at the complex linkages between labor, migration, globalization, and the structural violence that accompanies the new world economic order. Gardner follows the labyrinthine paths of migrant workers in the Gulf, drawing on powerful qualitative data to complicate existing assumptions about the lives of skilled and unskilled workers in the Middle East's fastest growing region. Beautifully written and compelling, the book sheds light on a population and area of the world that remains understudied despite its rapid emergence onto the global market."—Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:38:43Z 2020-04-01T13:38:43Z 2010-07-02 book 627411 OCN: 1162413722 9780801476020;9780801462207;9780801462191 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31526 eng application/pdf n/a 627411.pdf Cornell University Press 10.26530/oapen_627411 100456 10.26530/oapen_627411 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780801476020;9780801462207;9780801462191 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ithaca, NY 100456 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the Persian Gulf states and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.
"Andrew M. Gardner expertly combines in-depth ethnography with theoretical sophistication in this important look at the complex linkages between labor, migration, globalization, and the structural violence that accompanies the new world economic order. Gardner follows the labyrinthine paths of migrant workers in the Gulf, drawing on powerful qualitative data to complicate existing assumptions about the lives of skilled and unskilled workers in the Middle East's fastest growing region. Beautifully written and compelling, the book sheds light on a population and area of the world that remains understudied despite its rapid emergence onto the global market."—Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College
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