Kathiravelu, Laavanya
Migrant Dubai
1. Introduction: Situating Dubai
Laavanya Kathiravelu
2. Dubai as Metaphor: Corporate Entity, Global City, Hope and Mirage
Laavanya Kathiravelu
3. Migrants and the State: Structures of Violence, Co-ethnic Exploitation and the Transnationalisation of Rights
Laavanya Kathiravelu
4. Neoliberal Narratives: Migrant Self-Constructions and the Performance of Empowered Subjectivities
Laavanya Kathiravelu
5. The Divided City: Gated Communities, Everyday Mobilities and Public Space
Laavanya Kathiravelu
6. Social Networks: Informal Solidarities and an Ethic of “Care”
Laavanya Kathiravelu
7. Conclusion
Laavanya Kathiravelu
Keywords: Social Sciences, Migration, Middle Eastern Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Area Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Ethnicity Studies
- Author(s)
- Kathiravelu, Laavanya
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Global Diversities
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137450180
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-56671-6