Walls Built On Sand

Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait

Anh Nga Longva (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31390-6 (ISBN)

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Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archival research, the author examines the social dimension of labor migration to Kuwait since independence in 1961, exploring how the presence of over one million foreign workers has influenced the way Kuwaitis organize their lives and perceive themselves.

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 archi

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

1 Introduction, 2 Kuwait Through History: A Tradition of Migration and Open Networks, 3 The Politics of Exclusion, 4 The Structure of Dominance: The Sponsorship System, 5 Conceptualizing "Us" and "Them" Through Everyday Practice, 6 Expatriate Life: Liminality and an "Ad Hoc" Way of Life, 7 Gender Relations, Ethnicity, and the National Project, 8 Pluralism and Integration, 9 Postscript

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-31390-1 / 0367313901
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31390-6 / 9780367313906
Zustand	Neuware