Walls Built On Sand

Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society, that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archi

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367313906

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Anh Nga Longva is associate professor of social antropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction, 2 Kuwait Through History: A Tradition of Migration and Open Networks, 3 The Politics of Exclusion, 4 The Structure of Dominance: The Sponsorship System, 5 Conceptualizing "Us" and "Them" Through Everyday Practice, 6 Expatriate Life: Liminality and an "Ad Hoc" Way of Life, 7 Gender Relations, Ethnicity, and the National Project, 8 Pluralism and Integration, 9 Postscript