Event Title
In the Shadows of Skyscrapers: Labor Migrants in the Petroleum States of the Arabian Peninsula
Description
While Dr. Gardner’s most recent book, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain (Cornell 2010), ethnographically explores the migrant and diasporic Indian community in the Kingdom of Bahrain, his larger ongoing research interest is with the experiences of the labor migrants in all the petroleum states of the Arabian Peninsula. Gardner will address this extraordinarily large and understudied migration flow of the lowest echelons of the migrant workforce and examine the patterns and common threads that weave through these migrants’ experiences, and peers from that vantage point at the evolving power of the modern Gulf State.
About the Lecturer: Andrew Gardner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Sociology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Document Type
Event
Start Date
27-10-2010 12:00 PM
End Date
27-10-2010 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
East Indians--Violence against--Bahrain; East Indians--Bahrain; Foreign workers, East Indian--Bahrain
Geographic Coverage
Bahrian
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Labor migrants, Petroleum states, Migrant workforce
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
In the Shadows of Skyscrapers: Labor Migrants in the Petroleum States of the Arabian Peninsula
Fairhaven College Auditorium
While Dr. Gardner’s most recent book, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain (Cornell 2010), ethnographically explores the migrant and diasporic Indian community in the Kingdom of Bahrain, his larger ongoing research interest is with the experiences of the labor migrants in all the petroleum states of the Arabian Peninsula. Gardner will address this extraordinarily large and understudied migration flow of the lowest echelons of the migrant workforce and examine the patterns and common threads that weave through these migrants’ experiences, and peers from that vantage point at the evolving power of the modern Gulf State.
About the Lecturer: Andrew Gardner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Sociology, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
