03664nam 2200661 450 991082513930332120230126214053.00-8047-9884-210.1515/9780804798846(CKB)3710000000602838(EBL)4439525(SSID)ssj0001623768(PQKBManifestationID)16361357(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001623768(PQKBWorkID)14930511(PQKB)11279000(MiAaPQ)EBC4439525(DE-B1597)564949(DE-B1597)9780804798846(Au-PeEL)EBL4439525(CaPaEBR)ebr11170956(OCoLC)941999708(OCoLC)1178769745(EXLCZ)99371000000060283820160613h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrossing the gulf love and family in migrant lives /Pardis MahdaviStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-9883-4 0-8047-9442-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PROLOGUE --1. Im/Mobilities and Im/Migrations --2. Love, Labor, and the Law --3. Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices --4. Changing Home/s --5. Children of the Emir --6. Transformations and Mobilizations --7. Negotiated Intimacies and Unwanted Gifts --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --NOTES --REFERENCES --INDEXThe lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase the challenges faced by migrants and their kin. In some cases, the laws themselves lead to illegality or statelessness, particularly for migrant mothers and their children. 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.ImmigrantsFamily relationshipsPersian Gulf StatesWomen immigrantsFamily relationshipsPersian Gulf StatesImmigrantsPersian Gulf StatesSocial conditionsWomen immigrantsPersian Gulf StatesSocial conditionsPersian Gulf StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyImmigrantsFamily relationshipsWomen immigrantsFamily relationshipsImmigrantsSocial conditions.Women immigrantsSocial conditions.305.90691209536Mahdavi Pardis1978-1699274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825139303321Crossing the gulf4089519UNINA