Migrant Dubai

Chapter 1 Introduction: Situating Dubai

Chapter 2 Dubai as Metaphor: Corporate Entity, Global City, Hope and Mirage

Chapter 3 Migrants and the State: Structures of Violence, Co-ethnic Exploitation and the Transnationalisation of Rights

Chapter 4 Neoliberal Narratives: Migrant Self-Constructions and the Performance of Empowered Subjectivities

Chapter 5 The Divided City: Gated Communities, Everyday Mobilities and Public Space

Chapter 6 Social Networks: Informal Solidarities and an Ethic of “Care”