TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahdavi,Pardis
TI  - Crossing the Gulf: love and family in migrant lives 
SN  - 9780804794428
AV  - JV8750 .M34 2016
U1  - 305.9/0691209536 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Persian Gulf States
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Einwanderer
KW  - gnd
KW  - Familienleben
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Golfstaaten
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -