Between dreams and ghosts : Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil

Author(s)

• Wright, Andrea (Professor)

Bibliographic Information

Between dreams and ghosts : Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil

Andrea Wright

（Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures）

Stanford University Press, c2021

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-260) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved-the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them-Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces-and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond Surplus and Scarcity Part I: Of Mangoes and Men One: Protecting Vulnerable Citizens Two: Cultivating Entrepreneurs Three: Building Influential Networks Part II: Connective Substances Four: Making Kin with Gold Five: The Rig and the Temple Part III: The Weight of Tradition Six: Blowing Sand Seven: The Demon of Unsafe Acts Conclusion: Enduring Debts

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Details

• NCID: BC12915365
• ISBN:
  • 9781503630109
• LCCN: 2021013027
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 273 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 331.62540536
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Foreign workers, East Indian -- Persian Gulf States
  • LCSH : Petroleum workers -- Persian Gulf States
  • LCSH : East Indians -- Persian Gulf States
  • LCSH : Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Persian Gulf States
  • LCSH : Persian Gulf States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : India -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA77828614