Walls Built On Sand: Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait

الغلاف الأمامي
Routledge, 20‏/05‏/2019 - 284 من الصفحات
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 archiv
 

المحتوى

1 Introduction
1
A Tradition of Migration and Open Networks
19
3 The Politics of Exclusion
43
The Sponsorship System
77
5 Conceptualizing Us and Them Through Everyday Practice
113
Liminality and an Ad Hoc Way of Life
149
7 Gender Relations Ethnicity and the National Project
187
8 Pluralism and Integration
223
9 Postscript
243
Bibliography
246
Index
257
About the Book and Author
266
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نبذة عن المؤلف (2019)

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

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