TY - BOOK ID - 14273584 TI - Gridlock : labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai PY - 2011 SN - 0804772207 0804777500 9780804777506 9780804772204 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. KW - Dubayy (United Arab Emirates: Emirate) - Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects. KW - Forced labor -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Forced labor - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Foreign workers -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Foreign workers - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Human trafficking -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Human trafficking - United Arab Emirates - Dubayy (Emirate). KW - Foreign workers KW - Forced labor KW - Human trafficking KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Economic aspects. KW - Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) KW - People trafficking KW - Sex trafficking KW - Traffic in persons KW - Trafficking in human beings KW - Trafficking in persons KW - White slave traffic KW - White slavery KW - Compulsory labor KW - Conscript labor KW - Labor, Compulsory KW - Labor, Forced KW - Alien labor KW - Aliens KW - Foreign labor KW - Guest workers KW - Guestworkers KW - Immigrant labor KW - Immigrant workers KW - Migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Employment KW - Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - Dibai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - Dubai KW - Imārat Dubayy (United Arab Emirates) KW - State of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) KW - Sheikhdom of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) KW - Shaikhdom of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) KW - Debei (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - Debai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - دبي (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) KW - Emirate of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) KW - إمارة دبيّ (United Arab Emirates) KW - Sex crimes KW - Employees KW - E-books KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Sociology of work KW - Migration. Refugees KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - Noncitizen labor KW - Noncitizens KW - White slave traffic (Human trafficking) KW - White slavery (Human trafficking) KW - Offenses against the person UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14273584 AB - 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 ER -