Gridlock: labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai / Pardis Mahdavi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).

Foreign workers.

Forced labor--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).

Forced labor.

Human trafficking--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).

Human trafficking.

Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors-but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though the risk of ending up in bad situations is high. Legislators hoping to combat h

Contents:

Trafficking trafficking

Dubai Inc.

Sex work

Migration in context

Labor outside law

An (un)civil society

Building towers, building structures

Building castles in the sand.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777506

0804777500

OCLC:

726734855