City of strangers [electronic resource] : Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain / Andrew M. Gardner.
By: Gardner, Andrew.
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BookPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010Description: xi, 188 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Foreign workers, East Indian -- Bahrain | East Indians -- Bahrain | Foreign workers, East Indian -- Violence against -- Bahrain | East Indians -- Violence against -- Bahrain | Ethnology -- Bahrain | India -- Emigration and immigration | Bahrain -- Emigration and immigration | Bahrain -- Ethnic relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.62/5405365 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.
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.
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