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    Crossing the Gulf : love and family in migrant lives / Pardis Mahdavi.

    By: Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Description: 208 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804794428; 0804794421; 9780804798839; 0804798834Subject(s): Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States | Women immigrants -- Family relationships -- Persian Gulf States | Immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions | Women immigrants -- Persian Gulf States -- Social conditions | Persian Gulf States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Immigrants -- Family relationships | Immigrants -- Social conditions | Women immigrants -- Family relationships | Women immigrants -- Social conditions | Middle East -- Persian Gulf States | Einwanderer | Familienleben | GolfstaatenDDC classification: 305.9/0691209536 LOC classification: JV8750 | .M34 2016
    Contents:
    Im/mobilities and im/migrations -- Love, labor, and the law -- Inflexible citizenship and flexible practices -- Changing home/s -- Children of the emir -- Transformations and mobilizations -- Negotiated intimacies and unwanted gifts.
    Summary: Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Im/mobilities and im/migrations -- Love, labor, and the law -- Inflexible citizenship and flexible practices -- Changing home/s -- Children of the emir -- Transformations and mobilizations -- Negotiated intimacies and unwanted gifts.

    Crossing the Gulf tells the stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness, deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid.

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