Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745335225 ISBN 13: 9780745335223

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2014

Synopsis

There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect on citizenship and workers' rights. Transit States considers how the transitory labour power these workers provide creates an extraordinary development boom that impacts neighbouring countries. The majority of the working population is therefore composed of migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The Gulf takes a central place in growing debates around migration and labour in the global economy. Transit States confronts the precarious working conditions of migrants in an accessible, yet in-depth manner.

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Review:

"A novel and a crucial contribution to the study of migration through the lens of political economy, applicable to sociology, anthropology, and historical studies, a rich and comprehensive collection" - Immanuel Ness, Professor Department of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

"A valuable addition to our knowledge about the demographic, social, political, economic, historical, and spatial factors underlying the dynamics of labour migration in shaping the Gulf countries" - Nasra Shah, Professor of Demography at the Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University

About the Author:

Abdulhadi Khalaf is a senior lecturer in the Sociology department at Lund University. He is the co-editor of Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf (Pluto, 2014). Omar AlShehabi writes from Bahrain and is director of the Gulf Centre for Development Policies. He is the co-editor of Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf (Pluto, 2014). He has previously worked at the World Bank and the IMF as well as McKinsey & Co. Adam Hanieh is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is editor of Transit States (Pluto, 2014), author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (2011) and Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0745335225
• ISBN 13: 9780745335223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Khalaf Abdulhadi, AlShehabi Omar, Hanieh Adam