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  • Tahriib – Journeys into the Unknown

    An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration

    by Anja Simonsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’. When young Somali men and women refer to the ‘unknown’, they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys. This uncertainty is partly due to the laws and policies that restrict the right to cross national boundaries and define their movements as illegal. Based on fieldwork ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Biometric Border World

    Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move

    by Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, Anja Simonsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements.Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put to use and negotiated ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Dubai

    Gilded Cage

    by Syed Ali ...
    This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States

    Edited by Robert Springborg, Alsharekh Alanoud ...
    Series Book 6 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression, and ... Read more

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  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transnational Middle East

    People, Places, Borders

    Edited by Leïla Vignal ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    The Middle East has been undergoing new crises since the powerful socio-political uprisings known as the Arab Spring took place in several countries in 2011. Some countries are experiencing a long-term collapse of their political and social structures out of internal conflicts and external interventions.The Transnational Middle East posits that, in the Middle East, the development of regional ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

    by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Evolving Arab City

    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

    Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Impossible Citizens

    Dubai's Indian Diaspora

    by Neha Vora ...
    Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming migration

    Voices from Europe's 'migrant crisis'

    by Vicki Squire, Professor Nina Perkowski, Dallal Stevens, Nick Vaughan-Williams ...
    Reclaiming migration critically assesses the EU’s migration policy by presenting the unheard voices of the so-called migrant crisis. It undertakes an extensive analysis of a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016, to document how EU policy developments create precarity on the part of those migrating under perilous ... Read more

    $21.99 USD