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Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora

By Neha Vora

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780822397533
DOI
10.1515/9780822397533
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1810781 bytes)
Pages
264\258
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 14:22:12

Description

Since the 1970s, Indian workers have flooded into Dubai, enabling its construction boom. Barred from becoming citizens, they comprise the emirate's largest noncitizen population. Neha Vora examines their existence in a state of permanent temporariness.

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