Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Published on 1. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-1-80539-751-9 (ISBN)
Description
Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region. The contributions underscore the aspirational character of the Gulf as a place where migrant recognition can be attained while also reflecting on practices of exclusion. The book is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars and includes an original contribution by the acclaimed author of the novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan.
Reviews / Votes
"There is no doubt that this engaging volume represents a new contribution to the scholarship on migration to the Gulf area and, more specifically, to the South-South migration... All the chapters are solidly based on ethnographic fieldwork or hitherto unexplored primary sources." * Anna Baldinetti, University of PerugiaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
251 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80539-751-9 (9781805397519)
DOI
10.3167/9781800733503
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Antia Mato Bouzas | Lorenzo Casini
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
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01/2022
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Persons
Antia Mato Bouzas is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University and Associate Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. She is the author of Kashmir as a Borderland: The politics of space and belonging across the Line of Control (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Antia Mato Bouzas
Part I: Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and National Imaginaries
Chapter 1. Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009 - 2017
Elizabeth Derderian
Chapter 2. The Gulf as an Unhomely Home. Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants
Nadeen Dakkak
Chapter 3. Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai
Rana AlMutawa
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of NYU Abu Dhabi.
Part II: Aspirational Gulf
Chapter 4. Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space
Jaafar Alloul
Chapter 5. A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala
M. Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Conclusion: The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan
Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Antia Mato Bouzas
Part I: Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and National Imaginaries
Chapter 1. Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009 - 2017
Elizabeth Derderian
Chapter 2. The Gulf as an Unhomely Home. Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants
Nadeen Dakkak
Chapter 3. Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai
Rana AlMutawa
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of NYU Abu Dhabi.
Part II: Aspirational Gulf
Chapter 4. Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space
Jaafar Alloul
Chapter 5. A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala
M. Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Conclusion: The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan
Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan
Index