ISBN:
9781800733510
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 156 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Worlds in motion Volume 11
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Migration in the making of the Gulf space
DDC:
305.9/0691209536
Keywords:
Immigrants
;
Noncitizens
;
Electronic books
;
Persian Gulf States Emigration and immigration
;
Social aspects
;
Persian Gulf States Civilization
;
Persian Gulf States Social conditions
;
Arabische Staaten
;
Golfstaaten
;
Persischer Golf
;
Einwanderer
;
Beduine
;
Migration
;
Kultur
;
Soziale Situation
;
Lebensbedingungen
Abstract:
Exhibiting Tolerance : Citizenship, Contingency, and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009-2017 / Elizabeth Derderian -- The Gulf as an Unhomely Home : Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants / Nadeen Dakkak -- Navigating the Cosmopolitan City : Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai / Rana Al Mutawa -- Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space / Jaafar Alloul -- A Strangeness One Can Occupy : Clothes and Their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala / Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil - Conclusion : The Gulf Space in Words : In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan / Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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