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.
Laavanya Kathiravelu
Migration migrant labour urban Middle East South Asia inequality global city Gulf Dubai neoliberalism migration mobility Nation Transnational violence