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Author Mahdavi, Pardis

Title Gridlock : Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents Prologue; 1. Trafficking Trafficking; 2. Dubai Inc.; 3. Sex Work; 4. Migration in Context; 5. Labor Outside Law; 6. An (Un)Civil Society; 7. Building Towers, Building Structures; 8. Building Castles in the Sand; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though the risk of ending up in bad situations is high. Legislators hoping to combat human traffick
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
Forced labor -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
Human trafficking -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Forced labor
Foreign workers
Human trafficking
SUBJECT Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Subject United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011003618
ISBN 9780804777506
0804777500