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Author Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- author.

Title Crossing the Gulf : love and family in migrant lives / Pardis Mahdavi
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016
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Contents Im/mobilities and im/migrations -- Love, labor, and the law -- Inflexible citizenship and flexible practices -- Changing home/s -- Children of the emir -- Transformations and mobilizations -- Negotiated intimacies and unwanted gifts
Summary Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States
Women immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States
Immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Immigrants -- Family relationships
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Family relationships
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
Einwanderer
Familienleben
SUBJECT Persian Gulf States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Subject Persian Gulf States
Golfstaaten
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804798846
0804798842