| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Im/mobilities and im/migrations -- Love, labor, and the law -- Inflexible citizenship and flexible practices -- Changing home/s -- Children of the emir -- Transformations and mobilizations -- Negotiated intimacies and unwanted gifts. |
| Summary |
Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States.
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Immigrants -- Family relationships. |
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Persian Gulf States. |
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Immigrants. |
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Women immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States.
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Women immigrants -- Family relationships. |
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Women immigrants. |
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Immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions.
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Persian Gulf States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Government policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- Crossing the Gulf 9780804794428 (DLC) 2015050234 (OCoLC)932385974 |
| ISBN |
9780804798846 (electronic book) |
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0804798842 (electronic book) |
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9780804794428 |
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0804794421 |
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9780804798839 |
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0804798834 |
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