TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Andrew ED - Project Muse. TI - City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain SN - 9780801462207 AV - HD8668 .G37 2010 U1 - 331.62/5405365 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Ithaca PB - ILR Press KW - Ethnology KW - Bahrain KW - East Indians KW - Violence against KW - Foreign workers, East Indian KW - Ethnic relations KW - Emigration and immigration KW - India KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27485/ ER -