Walls built on sand : migration, exclusion, and society in Kuwait /
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| Language: | English |
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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.