City of strangers
Subtitle: Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain
By: Andrew M. Gardner.
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801448829; 9780801476020
Subjects: 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 relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states; title: Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain; title: Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat; title: Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite; title: The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community; title: Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere; title: The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state; title: Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.