Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Antia Mato Bouzas, Lorenzo Casini (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-751-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Antía 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

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Worlds in Motion
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-751-6 / 1805397516
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-751-9 / 9781805397519
Zustand	Neuware