Vora Neha Vora

Impossible Citizens (eBook, PDF)

Dubai's Indian Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

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 United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness.While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians-even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate-disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential-yet impossible-citizens of Dubai.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822397533
• Artikelnr.: 54677689

Autorenporträt

Neha Vora

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Exceptions and Exceptionality in Dubai 3
1. A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures
in Contemporary Dubai 36
2. An Indian City? Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old
Dubai 65
3. Between Global City and Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial
Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging 91
4. Exceeding the Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class
Dubai Indians 117
5. Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized
Education 144
Conclusion. Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the
Political 171
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 235