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Impossible citizens : Dubai's Indian diaspora / Neha Vora.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vora, Neha, 1974-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--United Arab Emirates--Dubayy (Emirate).
- East Indians.
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Ethnic relations--21st century.
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate).
- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate)--Emigration and immigration--21st century.
- India--Emigration and immigration--21st century.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1970s, Indian workers have flooded into Dubai, enabling its construction boom. Barred from becoming citizens, they comprise the emirate's largest noncitizen population. Neha Vora examines their existence in a state of permanent temporariness.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Exceptions and exceptionality in Dubai
- Capitalism run amok? why the "Dubai story" is incomplete
- The "rentier" state: oil, development, and migration
- Multiple logics of governance
- Citizenship and its exceptions
- Exception and its exceptions: centering Agamben and Dubai in citizenship studies
- Substantive and latitudinal citizenship within Dubai's Indian diaspora
- Are Indians in Dubai diasporic?
- Waves of indianness: taking and making the nation overseas
- Logics of belonging and citizenship in diaspora studies
- A tale of two creeks: cosmopolitan productions and cosmopolitan
- Erasures in contemporary Dubai
- New Dubai and the production of global futures
- Selling Arabia: producing differentiated foreign subjects
- Making purified pasts: heritage, citizenship, and national identity
- The making of tradition
- An Indian city? diasporic subjectivity and urban citizenship in old Dubai
- Liminal diaspora, liminal nation
- India extended: geographies of similarity and difference
- Neither "expat" nor "laborer"
- Diasporic identifications and ambivalences
- Geographies of belonging and exclusion
- Between global city and golden frontier: Indian businessmen
- Unofficial citizenship, and shifting forms of belonging?
- We built this country?
- Freedom, cosmopolitanism, and re-export: Indian ocean networks
- The creek frontier: mercantilism, masculinity, and nostalgia
- Maneuvering neoliberalisms: monopolies of "freedom" in Dubai's gold industry
- Non-citizen kafeels
- Exceeding the economic: new modalities of belonging among middle-class Dubai Indians
- Dubai is like a bus, an air-conditioned bus: economic migration and middle-class ideology
- Racism and the failure of the free market
- Race and the making of the middle class
- Consumer citizenship, choice, and claims to the city
- Becoming Indian in Dubai: parochialisms and globalisms in privatized education
- DBCD: Dubai-born confused desi
- Producing parochialisms through education
- Globalized higher education in the Gulf
- Dissonance, discrimination, and diasporic subjectification
- Reassessing Gulf studies: citizenship, democracy, and the political
- Rethinking the political
- De-provincializing democracy
- Making diasporic futures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781299384637
- 1299384633
- 9780822397533
- 0822397536
- OCLC:
- 833161465
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