Crossing the Gulf : love and family in migrant lives / Pardis Mahdavi

Author: Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978-
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date: ©2016
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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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.

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9780804798846 (electronic bk.)
0804798842 (electronic bk.)
9780804794428
0804794421
9780804798839
0804798834

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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