City of strangers Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain / [electronic resource] :
Andrew M. Gardner.
- Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.
- xi, 188 p. : ill., map.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.