TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Andrew ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - City of strangers: Gulf migration and the Indian community in Bahrain AV - HD8668 .G37 2010eb U1 - 331.62/5405365 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Ithaca PB - ILR Press KW - Foreign workers, East Indian KW - Bahrain KW - East Indians KW - Violence against KW - Ethnology KW - India KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Ethnic relations KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index; Introduction : structural violence and transnational migration in the Gulf states -- Pearls, oil, and the British Empire : a short history of Bahrain -- Foreign labor in peril : the Indian transnational proletariat -- Strategic transnationalism : the Indian diasporic elite -- The public sphere : social clubs and voluntary associations in the Indian community -- Contested identities, contested positions : English-language newspapers and the public sphere -- The invigorated state : transnationalism, citizen, and state -- Conclusion : Bahrain at the vanguard of change in the Gulf; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10468011 ER -