Crossing the Gulf : love and family in migrant lives / Pardis Mahdavi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Family relationships--Persian Gulf States.

Immigrants.

Women immigrants--Family relationships--Persian Gulf States.

Women immigrants.

Immigrants--Persian Gulf States--Social conditions.

Women immigrants--Persian Gulf States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Women immigrants--Family relationships.

Immigrants--Family relationships.

Persian Gulf States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Persian Gulf States.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Women immigrants--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid. Book jacket.

Contents:

Im/mobilities and im/migrations

Love, labor, and the law

Inflexible citizenship and flexible practices

Changing home/s

Children of the emir

Transformations and mobilizations

Negotiated intimacies and unwanted gifts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804794428

0804794421

9780804798839

0804798834

OCLC:

932385974