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Migrant dreams : Egyptian workers in the Gulf states / Samuli Schielke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schielke, Joska Samuli, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers, Egyptian--Persian Gulf States.
- Foreign workers, Egyptian.
- Return migration--Egypt.
- Return migration.
- Persian Gulf States--Emigration and immigration.
- Persian Gulf States.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 137 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 The Truman Show p. 1
- 2 Traveling to Doha p. 5
- 3 Guarding the Bank p. 11
- 4 A Narrow Circle p. 19
- 5 Enduring and Resisting p. 29
- 6 Families Only p. 35
- 7 Everything Circles around Money Here p. 43
- 8 Things Money Must Buy p. 47
- 9 Dreaming of the Inevitable p. 53
- 10 To Have Other Dreams p. 61
- 11 A Bigger Prison p. 69
- 12 Until the End of Oil p. 77
- 13 Normality and Excess p. 83
- 14 Estrangement and Faith p. 91
- 15 The Shine of the Metropolis p. 101.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781617979736
- 1617979732
- Publisher Number:
- 99986466900
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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