City of Strangers [electronic resource] : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain / Andrew M. Gardner.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 188 p. :) ill., mapContent type:- text
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- 9780801462207
- 331.62/5405365 22
- HD8668 .G37 2010
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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