Anh Nga Longva

Walls Built On Sand (eBook, PDF)

Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society-that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archiv

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429971723
• Artikelnr.: 56861928

Autorenporträt

Anh Nga Longva is associate professor of social antropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Kuwait Through History: A Tradition of Migration and Open Networks
3 The Politics of Exclusion
4 The Structure of Dominance: The Sponsorship System
5 Conceptualizing "Us" and "Them" Through Everyday Practice
6 Expatriate Life: Liminality and an "Ad Hoc" Way of Life
7 Gender Relations
Ethnicity
and the National Project
8 Pluralism and Integration
9 Postscript