Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Antia Mato Bouzas is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University and Associate Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. She is the author of Kashmir as a Borderland: The politics of space and belonging across the Line of Control (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

“There is no doubt that this engaging volume represents a new contribution to the scholarship on migration to the Gulf area and, more  specifically, to the South-South migration… All the chapters are solidly based on ethnographic fieldwork or hitherto unexplored primary sources.” • Anna Baldinetti, University of Perugia

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionAntía Mato BouzasPart I: Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and National ImaginariesChapter 1. Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009 – 2017Elizabeth DerderianChapter 2. The Gulf as an Unhomely Home. Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation MigrantsNadeen DakkakChapter 3. Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in DubaiRana AlMutawaThis chapter is available open access thanks to the support of NYU Abu Dhabi.Part II: Aspirational GulfChapter 4. Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf SpaceJaafar AlloulChapter 5. A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from KeralaM. Shafeeq KarinkurayilConclusion: The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak UnnikrishnanLorenzo Casini and Deepak UnnikrishnanIndex