Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Antia Mato Bouzas is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University and Associate Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. She is the author of Kashmir as a Borderland: The politics of space and belonging across the Line of Control (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction

Antía Mato Bouzas



Part I: Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and National Imaginaries



Chapter 1. Exhibiting Tolerance: Citizenship, Contingency and Contemporary Art in the UAE Pavilion, 2009 – 2017

Elizabeth Derderian



Chapter 2. The Gulf as an Unhomely Home. Reconfiguring Citizenship and Belonging in Diasporic Narratives on Second-Generation Migrants

Nadeen Dakkak



Chapter 3. Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai

Rana AlMutawa

This chapter is available open access thanks to the support of NYU Abu Dhabi.



Part II: Aspirational Gulf



Chapter 4. Dubai as Heterotopia? The Aspirational Politics of Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Gulf Space

Jaafar Alloul



Chapter 5. A Strangeness One Can Occupy: Clothes and their Codes in the Photographs of Gulf Migrants from Kerala

M. Shafeeq Karinkurayil



Conclusion: The Gulf Space in Words: In Dialogue with Author Deepak Unnikrishnan

Lorenzo Casini and Deepak Unnikrishnan



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