Kathiravelu Migrant Dubai

Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-45018-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Global Diversities

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes of discrimination.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kathiravelu, Laavanya

Über Autor(innen)

Laavanya Kathiravelu is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also a Fung Fellow at Princeton University, USA, in 2015/16. Her research sits at the intersection of international migration and contemporary diverse cities, especially in the Global South.