ISBN:
0801448824
,
080147602X
,
9780801448829
,
9780801476020
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 188 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. print.
DDC:
331.62/5405365
Keywords:
Foreign workers, East Indian
;
East Indians
;
Foreign workers, East Indian Violence against
;
East Indians Violence against
;
Ethnology
;
Inder
;
Bahrain
;
Migration
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175 - 184) and index
