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ISBN: 1503629244 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,
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Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.
Foreign workers --- Whites --- Social conditions --- Race identity --- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Race relations. --- Dubai. --- Gender. --- Heteronormativity. --- Intimacy. --- Labor. --- Migration. --- Postcolonial studies. --- Westernness. --- Whiteness. --- race and class. --- White people
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ISBN: 0804772207 0804777500 9780804777506 9780804772204 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
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The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors-but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though the risk of ending up in bad situations is high. Legislators hoping to combat h
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. --- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates: Emirate) - Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects. --- Forced labor -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). --- Forced labor - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). --- Foreign workers -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). --- Foreign workers - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). --- Human trafficking -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). --- Human trafficking - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). --- Foreign workers --- Forced labor --- Human trafficking --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Emigration and immigration --- Economic aspects. --- Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) --- People trafficking --- Sex trafficking --- Traffic in persons --- Trafficking in human beings --- Trafficking in persons --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Alien labor --- Aliens --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Employment --- Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Dibai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Dubai --- Imārat Dubayy (United Arab Emirates) --- State of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) --- Sheikhdom of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) --- Shaikhdom of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) --- Debei (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Debai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- دبي (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Emirate of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) --- إمارة دبيّ (United Arab Emirates) --- Sex crimes --- Employees --- E-books --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of work --- Migration. Refugees --- anno 2000-2009 --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens --- White slave traffic (Human trafficking) --- White slavery (Human trafficking) --- Offenses against the person
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