Stateless in the Gulf : migration, nationality and society in Kuwait / by Claire Beaugrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaugrand, Claire, author.

Series:

Library of modern Middle East studies.

Library of modern Middle East studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Kuwait.

Human rights.

Undocumented immigrants--Kuwait.

Undocumented immigrants.

Stateless persons--Kuwait.

Stateless persons.

Statelessness--Kuwait.

Statelessness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without nationality' in Arabic. As long-term residents with close geographical ties and intimate cultural links to the emirate, the biduns claim that they are entitled to Kuwaiti nationality because they have no other. But since 1986 the State of Kuwait, has considered them 'illegal residents' on Kuwaiti territory. As a result, the biduns have been denied civil and human rights and treated as undocumented migrants, with no access to employment, health, education or official birth and death certificates. It was only after the first-ever bidun protest in 2011, that the government softened restrictions imposed upon them. Claire Beaugrand argues here that, far from being an anomaly, the position of the biduns is of central importance to the understanding of state formation processes in the Gulf countries, and the ways in which identity and the boundaries of nationality are negotiated and concretely enacted."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Nationality in Perspective

Chapter 1: Citizenship in the Arab Gulf States: Redistribution and Distinction

Chapter 2: Nationality: From a Standard to a Right

Part II: From State Formation to 'Stateless People'

Chapter 3: The Transnational Foundations of the Kuwaiti Emirate

Chapter 4: The Kuwaiti Social Pact: Conceptions and Practices of Nationality

Chapter 5: Turning the Al-Sabah Rule into a Constitutional State

Part III: Social Integration vs. State Discrimination

Chapter 6: Administrative Violence

Chapter 7: Biduns' Coping Strategies

Chapter 8: External Pressures and the Promotion of the Human Rights Regime

Part IV: Political Economy of Naturalisation: Solving the Biduns Issue?

Chapter 9: Keeping Welfare Privileges, Buying Time

Chapter 10: 'Give Biduns Their Human Rights'

Chapter 11: Emerging Biduns' Voices?

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350988279

1350988278

9781786733238

1786733234

9781786723239

1786723239

OCLC:

1114452165