Laavanya Kathiravelu

Migrant Dubai

Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Global Diversities
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-45017-3
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781137450173
• ISBN-10: 1137450177
• Artikelnr.: 42954052

Autorenporträt

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.