Global Diversities: Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City

Kathiravelu, Laavanya

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes of discrimination.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-11-26

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137450173

DOI: 10.1057/9781137450180

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 246