Walls built on sand : migration, exclusion, and society in Kuwait /

Main Author: Longva, Anh Nga
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford, U.K. : Westview Press, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Map of Kuwait
  • Map of Kuwait City and Suburbs
  • 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.