ISBN:
0822353784
,
0822353938
,
9780822353782
,
9780822353935
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xi, 245 p)
,
ill.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Impossible citizens
DDC:
305.8914/05357
Schlagwort(e):
East Indians
;
East Indians -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
;
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Ethnic relations -- 21st century
;
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- 21st century
;
India -- Emigration and immigration -- 21st century
;
Electronic books
;
India Emigration and immigration 21st century
;
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) Emigration and immigration 21st century
;
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) Ethnic relations 21st century
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Since the 1970s, Indian workers have flooded into Dubai, enabling its construction boom. Barred from becoming citizens, they comprise the emirate's largest noncitizen population. Neha Vora examines their existence in a state of permanent temporariness
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Exceptions & Exceptionality in Dubai; 1. A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai; 2. An Indian City? : Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai; 3. Between Global City and Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging; 4. Exceeding the Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class Dubai Indians; 5. Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized Education
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Conclusion: Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the PoliticalNotes; Bibliography; Index
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction -- Exceptions and exceptionality in Dubai -- Capitalism run amok? why the "Dubai story" is incomplete -- The "rentier" state: oil, development, and migration -- Multiple logics of governance -- Citizenship and its exceptions -- Exception and its exceptions: centering Agamben and Dubai in citizenship studies -- Substantive and latitudinal citizenship within Dubai's Indian diaspora -- Are Indians in Dubai diasporic? -- Waves of indianness: taking and making the nation overseas -- Logics of belonging and citizenship in diaspora studies -- A tale of two creeks: cosmopolitan productions and cosmopolitan -- Erasures in contemporary Dubai -- New Dubai and the production of global futures -- Selling Arabia: producing differentiated foreign subjects -- Making purified pasts: heritage, citizenship, and national identity -- The making of tradition -- An Indian city? diasporic subjectivity and urban citizenship in old Dubai -- Liminal diaspora, liminal nation -- India extended: geographies of similarity and difference -- Neither "expat" nor "laborer" -- Diasporic identifications and ambivalences -- Geographies of belonging and exclusion -- Between global city and golden frontier: Indian businessmen -- Unofficial citizenship, and shifting forms of belonging? -- We built this country? -- Freedom, cosmopolitanism, and re-export: Indian ocean networks -- The creek frontier: mercantilism, masculinity, and nostalgia -- Maneuvering neoliberalisms: monopolies of "freedom" in Dubai's gold industry -- Non-citizen kafeels -- Exceeding the economic: new modalities of belonging among middle-class Dubai Indians -- Dubai is like a bus, an air-conditioned bus: economic migration and middle-class ideology -- Racism and the failure of the free market -- Race and the making of the middle class -- Consumer citizenship, choice, and claims to the city -- Becoming Indian in Dubai: parochialisms and globalisms in privatized education -- DBCD: Dubai-born confused desi -- Producing parochialisms through education -- -- Globalized higher education in the Gulf -- Dissonance, discrimination, and diasporic subjectification -- Reassessing Gulf studies: citizenship, democracy, and the political -- Rethinking the political -- De-provincializing democracy -- Making diasporic futures.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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