City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / Andrew M. Gardner.

By:

Gardner, Andrew, 1969-

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Project Muse [distributor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xi, 188 p.) : ill., mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780801462191
9780801448829
9780801476020
9780801462207

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

331.62/5405365 22

LOC classification:

HD8668 .G37 2010

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Contents:

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.

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