Table of Contents: City of strangers

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gardner, Andrew, 1969-
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Foreign workers, East Indian > Bahrain. East Indians > Bahrain. Foreign workers, East Indian > Violence against > Bahrain. East Indians > Violence against > Bahrain. Ethnology > Bahrain. India > Emigration and immigration. Bahrain > Emigration and immigration. Bahrain > Ethnic relations. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states
Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain
Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat
Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite
The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community
Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere
The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state
Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf.