Strategic Transnationalism: The Indian Diasporic Elite in Contemporary Bahrain
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- Application process, Arab emirates, Arabian peninsula, Asian transmigrants, Bahrain, Bahraini, Bahraini citizens, Bahraini friends, Bahraini partner, Bahraini passport, Bahrainization, Bahrainization policies, Business license, Business owners, Cambridge university press, Case studies, Citizenship, City society, Diaspora, Diasporic, Diasporic elite, Diasporic elite face, Duke university press, Eld, Elite, Esha niyogi, Essential components, Ethnocratic underpinnings, Ethnographic data, Everyday encounters, Everyday interactions, Exible citizenship, Family members, Farid, Foreign workers, Fteen years, Geographical calculations, Global capitalism, Good judgment, Governance, Great majority, Guestworker, Gulf sates, Gulf states, Habitus, Impoverished countrymen, Indian community, Indian diaspora, Indian diasporic elite, Indian elite, Indian laborers, Indian merchants, Indian population, Indian widow, Informal nature, Kafala, Kuwait, Labour ministry, Legal system, Longva, Luis eduardo guarnizo, Many members, Mariam, Market forces, Minnesota press, Neoliberal, Neoliberal logic, Neoliberal model, Neutral ground, Normal person, Particular sectors, Plural society, Power relations, Same fashion, Same time, Skilled workers, Small island, Small number, Social affairs, Sponsorship system, State apparatus, State power, Strategic transnationalism, Structural violence, Transaction publishers, Transmigrant, Transmigrants, Transmigrants face, Transnational, Transnational connections, Transnational lives, Transnational networks, Transnational populations, Transnational proletariat, Transnational theory, Transnationalism, Unskilled labor, York academy.
Abstract
This paper provides an ethnographic window into the lives of the middle and upper classes of the substantial Indian diaspora in Bahrain. Like all the Gulf States, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large contingent of guest workers. Through a variety of historical conjunctures, Indians have long predominated in the flow of foreigners to the small island. In this paper I consider the experiences of the elite minority of that diaspora. While many aspects of their day‐to‐day experiences differ from those of their impoverished diasporic countrymen and countrywomen, I argue that they also face a variety of noteworthy vulnerabilities and dilemmas unique to their class position. In the final accounting, members of this Indian diasporic elite deploy a strategic transnationalism against the systemic vulnerabilities rendered by the sponsorship system currently in place in Bahrain.
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