Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space: Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Published by Berghahn Books 2022

Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Edited by: Antia Mato Bouzas and Lorenzo Casini

Volume 11 in the series Worlds in Motion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800733510

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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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Lorenzo Casini is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Messina. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow of the European University Institute (2006–2007) and has taught at several Italian universities. He is co-author of Modernità arabe: Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano [Arab Modernity: Nation, Narration and New Subjects in the Egyptian Novel] (Mesogea, 2012).

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).

Reviews

“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 Perugia

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Antía Mato Bouzas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Cosmopolitanism, Belonging, and National Imaginaries
CHAPTER 1 Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency, and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009–2017 Elizabeth Derderian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2 The Gulf as an Unhomely Home: Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants Nadeen Dakkak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 3 Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai Rana AlMutawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II Aspirational Gulf
CHAPTER 4 Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space Jaafar Alloul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
CHAPTER 5 A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and Their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CONCLUSION The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 164
Keywords: Refugee and Migration Studies; Anthropology (General); Sociology

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Published: January 14, 2022
ISBN: 9781800733510