Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf
By: Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar, editors
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780231703642
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Migrant labor
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Situating migrant labor in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar; title: Beyond labor : foreign residents in the Persian Gulf states / Attiya Ahmad; title: Why do they keep coming? : labor migrants in the Gulf states / Andrew Gardner; title: Socio-spatial boundaries in Abu Dhabi / Jane Bristol Rhys; title: Informality and its discontents : mapping migrant worker trajectories into Dubai's informal economy / Pardis Mahdavi; title: Migration, networks, and connectedness across the Indian Ocean / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella; title: India-Gulf migration : corruption and capacity in regulating recruitment agencies / Mary Breeding; title: Nepali migrants to the Gulf cooperation council countries : values, behaviors, and plans / Nathalie E. Williams, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel; title: The legal regulation of migrant workers, politics, and identity in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates / David Mednicoff; title: Protecting migrants' rights in the Gulf cooperation council / Susan F. Martin; title: Index.