Impossible Citizens : Dubai's Indian Diaspora
Neha. Vora
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Medvirkende | Vora, Neha 1974- (Author)
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| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (259 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - Conclusion: Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the PoliticalNotes; Bibliography; Index. - 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.
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| ISBN | 9780822353782. - 9780822353935
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