Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of...
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Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Wright, Andrea

Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

$322.78

Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

$322.78
Author: Andrea Wright
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Andrea Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781503629516


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2022

About the Author
Andrea Wright is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at William & Mary.

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