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

Khalaf, Abdulhadi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745335209 ISBN 13: 9780745335209

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2014

Synopsis

Transit States

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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: 0745335209
• ISBN 13: 9780745335209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Khalaf Abdulhadi, AlShehabi Omar, Hanieh Adam