Walls Built On Sand

Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31390-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society, that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archi

Autoren/Hrsg.

Longva, Anh Nga

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction, 2 Kuwait Through History: A Tradition of Migration and Open Networks, 3 The Politics of Exclusion, 4 The Structure of Dominance: The Sponsorship System, 5 Conceptualizing "Us" and "Them" Through Everyday Practice, 6 Expatriate Life: Liminality and an "Ad Hoc" Way of Life, 7 Gender Relations, Ethnicity, and the National Project, 8 Pluralism and Integration, 9 Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Anh Nga Longva is associate professor of social antropology at the University of Bergen, Norway.