TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Andrea
TI  - Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil 
T2  - Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
SN  - 9781503629516
U1  - 331.62540536 
PY  - 2021///
KW  - Foreign workers, East Indian
KW  - Persian Gulf States
KW  - Petroleum workers
KW  - East Indians
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : beyond scarcity and surplus -- Part I. Of mangoes and men. Protecting vulnerable citizens -- Cultivating entrepreneurs -- Building influential networks -- Part II. Connective substances. Making kin with gold -- The Rig and the temple -- Part III. The weight of tradition. Blowing sand -- The demon of unsafe acts -- Conclusion : enduring debts -- Coda- Writing in a pandemic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "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"--
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