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Book/Printed Material City of strangers : Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain

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Title

  • City of strangers : Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain

Names

  • Gardner, Andrew, 1969- author.

Created / Published

  • Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2010]

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  East Indians--Violence against--Bahrain
  • -  East Indians--Bahrain
  • -  Ethnology--Bahrain
  • -  Foreign workers, East Indian--Violence against--Bahrain
  • -  Foreign workers, East Indian--Bahrain
  • -  Bahrain--Emigration and immigration
  • -  Bahrain--Ethnic relations
  • -  India--Emigration and immigration

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 03/09/2021).

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HD8668

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019724525

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Gardner, Andrew, Author. City of strangers: Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain. [Ithaca ; London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2010] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019724525/.

APA citation style:

Gardner, A. (2010) City of strangers: Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain. [Ithaca ; London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019724525/.

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Gardner, Andrew, Author. City of strangers: Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain. [Ithaca ; London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2010] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019724525/>.