Walls built on sand : migration, exclusion, and society In Kuwait /: migration, exclusion, and society In Kuwait. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anh Nga Longva.
• Authors: Longva, Anh Nga
• Contents: List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Kuwait -- Map of Kuwait City and suburbs -- Introduction -- Kuwait in the literature -- The concept of the plural society, migration and the nation-state -- Pluralism and integration: a research program -- How to study unbounded worlds? -- Fieldwork and problems encountered -- Methodology -- Notes -- Kuwait through history: a tradition of migration and open networks -- Pearl diving, sea trade, and caravans -- Politics and society in pre-oil Kuwait -- Oil: prosperity and its implications -- Widening the networks: the new labor migration -- A multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society -- Notes -- The politics of exclusion -- Putting exclusion in place -- The delineation of ethnic and social categories -- The first dichotomy: Kuwaitis-non-Kuwaitis -- The second dichotomy: Arabs-non-Arabs -- The third dichotomy: Muslims-non-Muslims -- Exclusion and the conceptualization of work -- The division of labor according to the logic of exclusion -- Notes -- The structure of dominance: the sponsorship system -- The Kafala -- Power: the view from outside, above, and below -- The Kafala in the private sector ("Visa No. 18") -- The Kafala in business partnership ("Visa No. 19") -- The Kafala in the domestic sector ("Visa No. 20") -- The power of the Kafeel -- The Kafala: a control mechanism by the civil society, power and powerlessness: the Kafala seen by Kuwaitis -- Notes -- Conceptualizing "Us" and "Them" through everyday practice -- Group differentiation and group identification -- Signaling identity through the dress code -- Reading the signals -- Ethnic identities and gender identities -- Ethnic stereotypes -- Opting out: the Never-Never Land of Western identity -- The definition and perceptions of "Us" and "Them" -- Ethnicity and class -- Notes -- Expatriate life: liminality and an "ad hoc" way of life -- A migrant career -- Human agency and international labor migration -- A population of like-minded individuals -- Life is a place elsewhere -- The social content of liminal time -- Time: the making and unmaking of relationships, time, space, and migration -- Time in cultural analysis -- An "ad hoc" way of life -- Notes -- Gender relations, ethnicity, and the national project -- "Change" and Kuwaiti women -- Subverting spatial confinement: the hijaab and the car -- Reproducing social confinement (I): the constraints of ethnic stratification -- Reproducing social confinement (II): the discourse of motherhood -- "Citizenship" versus "Hareem" -- Gendered citizenship, ethnicity, and class -- Women as nation-builders -- Change and continuity: the shifting sands of modernity -- Notes -- Pluralism and integration -- Integration in plural societies -- Integration, coercion, and material interests -- What kind of commonality? -- Subjective integration: the role of experience -- Towards an anthropology of deterritorialization -- Notes -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the book and author.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (284 pages)
• Subjects: 304.8/5367; Foreign workers -- Kuwait; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic relations; Foreign workers; Population; Social conditions; Kuwait -- Emigration and immigration; Kuwait -- Population; Kuwait -- Ethnic relations; Kuwait -- Social conditions; Kuwait; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429503177; 0429503172; 9780429993886; 0429993889; 9780429971723; 0429971729; 9780429982804; 0429982801
• Related ISBNs: 9780813337852; 9780367313906; 9780813327587; 081332758X; 0813337852
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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