Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space: Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

by Antia Mato Bouzas (Editor), Lorenzo Casini (Editor)

Overview

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region. The contributions underscore the aspirational character of the Gulf as a place where migrant recognition can be attained while also reflecting on practices of exclusion. The book is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars and includes an original contribution by the acclaimed author of the novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805397519
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	02/01/2025
Series:	Worlds in Motion , #11
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Antia Mato Bouzas is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan Universityand 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 UniversityPress, 2019).

Lorenzo Casini is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Messina. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow of the European UniversityInstitute (2006–2007) and has taught at several Italian universities. He is co-author of Modernità arabe: Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano [Arab Modernity: Nation, Narration and New Subjects in the Egyptian Novel] (Mesogea, 2012).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Antía Mato Bouzas

Part I: Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and National Imaginaries

Chapter 1. Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009 – 2017
Elizabeth Derderian

Chapter 2. The Gulf as an Unhomely Home. Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants
Nadeen Dakkak

Chapter 3. Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai
Rana AlMutawa
This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of NYU Abu Dhabi.

Part II: Aspirational Gulf

Chapter 4. Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space
Jaafar Alloul

Chapter 5. A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala
M. Shafeeq Karinkurayil

Conclusion: The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan
Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan

Index

Editorial Reviews

“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

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