Walls Built On Sand: Migration, Exclusion, And Society In KuwaitRoutledge, 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 |
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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 |
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About the Book and Author | 266 |
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according action activities actors allowed Arab Asian authorities become Chapter citizens citizenship claim common concern context contract cultural dependents domestic domestic workers dominance economic employer especially ethnic example exclusion existence expatriates experience fact female force foreign Gulf hand husband identity important Indian individual instance integration interests kafala Kuwaiti women labor least less lives majority male material matter means Middle migrant workers migrants Ministry Muslim native natural never non-Kuwaitis observed official origin Palestinians participation particular pattern percent plural political population position practice present problem question relations relationship residence result role rule schools sector seemed shared situation social society Source sponsor sponsorship status structural tion took tradition usually various Western