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11%OFFNeha Vora - Impossible Citizens: Dubai´s Indian Diaspora - 9780822353935 - V9780822353935
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Impossible Citizens: Dubai´s Indian Diaspora

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Description for Impossible Citizens: Dubai´s Indian Diaspora Paperback. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness.While their legal status ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353935
SKU
V9780822353935
Shipping Time
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About Neha Vora
Neha Vora is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Reviews for Impossible Citizens: Dubai´s Indian Diaspora
[W]ith Impossible Citizens, Vora-through her rich ethnographic work and her very well laid out arguments-contributes significantly to our understanding of citizenship, diaspora and belonging by introducing the largely understudied, highly multicultural yet stratified society of Dubai.
Idil Akinci
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
...this book is a remarkable study in the field of Gulf Studies, ... Read more

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