Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worl

Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, en

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home