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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Introduction | |
A Tradition of Migration | |
Prosperity and Its Implications | |
The New Labor Migration | |
Notes | |
The Sponsorship | |
The Kafala in the Private Sector Visa No 18 | |
Reading the Signals | |
Ethnic Stereotypes | |
Liminality and an Ad Hoc Way | |
Human Agency and International Labor Migration | |
Life is a Place Elsewhere | |
The Making and Unmaking of Relationships | |
Time Space and Migration | |
An Ad Hoc Way of Life | |
The Kafala in Business Partnership Visa No 19 | |
A Control Mechanism by the Civil Society | |
Notes | |
Signaling Identity Through the Dress Code | |
Notes | |
Pluralism and Integration | |
Postscript | |
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