Walls built on sand: migration, exclusion, and society in Kuwait
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables and Figure ix
Acknowledgments xi
Map of Kuwait xiii
Map of Kuwait City and Suburbs xiv
1 Introduction 1
Kuwait in the Literature, 1
The Concept of the Plural Society, 3
Migration and the Nation State, 7
Pluralism and Integration: A Research Program, 8
How to Study Unbounded Worlds? 10
Fieldwork and Problems Encountered, 12
Methodology, 14
Notes, 17
2 Kuwait Through History: A Tradition of Migration
and Open Networks 19
Pearl Diving, Sea Trade, and Caravans, 19
Politics and Society in Pre Oil Kuwait, 22
Oil: Prosperity and Its Implications, 25
Widening the Networks: The New Labor Migration, 31
A Multi Ethnic, Multi Cultural Society, 34
Notes, 38
3 The Politics of Exclusion 43
Putting Exclusion in Place, 43
The Delineation of Ethnic and Social Categories, 44
The First Dichotomy: Kuwaitis Non Kuwaitis, 45
The Second Dichotomy: Arabs Non Arabs, 54
The Third Dichotomy: Muslims Non Muslims, 56
Exclusion and the Conceptualization of Work, 59
The Division of Labor According to the Logic of Exclusion, 60
Notes, 72
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4 The Structure of Dominance: The Sponsorship System 77
The Kafala, 78
Power: The View from Outside, Above, and Below, 80
The Kafala in the Private Sector ( Visa No. 18 ), 84
The Kafala in Business Partnership ( Visa No. 19 ), 89
The Kafala in the Domestic Sector ( Visa No. 20 ), 91
The Power of the Kafeel, 93
The Kafala: A Control Mechanism by the Civil Society, 100
Power and Powerlessness: The Kafala Seen by Kuwaitis, 102
Notes, 109
5 Conceptualizing Us and Them Through
Everyday Practice 113
Group Differentiation and Group Identification, 114
Signaling Identity Through the Dress Code, 116
Reading the Signals, 125
Ethnic Identities and Gender Identities, 128
Ethnic Stereotypes, 132
Opting Out: The Never Never Land of Western Identity, 135
The Definition and Perceptions of Us and Them, 138
Ethnicity and Class, 140
Notes, 145
6 Expatriate Life: Liminality and an Ad Hoc Way of Life 149
A Migrant Career, 149
Human Agency and International Labor Migration, 153
A Population of Like Minded Individuals, 156
Life is a Place Elsewhere, 159
The Social Content of Liminal Time, 162
Time: The Making and Unmaking of Relationships, 166
Time, Space, and Migration, 172
Time in Cultural Analysis, 174
An Ad Hoc Way of Life, 177
Notes, 184
Contents vii
7 Gender Relations, Ethnicity, and the National Project 187
Change and Kuwaiti Women, 190
Subverting Spatial Confinement: The Hijaab and the Car, 193
Reproducing Social Confinement (I): The Constraints of Ethnic
Stratification, 197
Reproducing Social Confinement (II): The Discourse
of Motherhood, 203
Citizenship versus Hareem, 209
Gendered Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Class, 210
Women as Nation Builders, 214
Change and Continuity: The Shifting Sands of Modernity, 217
Notes, 220
8 Pluralism and Integration 223
Integration in Plural Societies, 225
Integration, Coercion, and Material Interests, 226
What Kind of Commonality? 228
Subjective Integration: The Role of Experience, 233
Towards an Anthropology of Deterritorialization, 238
Notes, 242
9 Postscript 243
Notes, 245
Bibliography 246
Index 257
About the Book and Author 266
Tables and Figure
Tables
2.1 Population of major non Kuwaiti nationalities in 1957 27
2.2 Fluctuations in government crude oil revenues for
selected years 27
2.3 Enumerated total population with percentage of Kuwaitis
and non Kuwaitis, 1957 1995 27
2.4 Composition of the non Kuwaiti population by regional
origin, 1975 1985 29
2.5 Non Kuwaiti population by nationality in 1990
(by thousands) 30
2.6 Duration of stay for Arab, Asian, and European
populations in Kuwait, 1985 32
2.7 Arab and Asian female population and labor force
participation rates before the oil boycott, 1965 1970 33
2.8 Arab and Asian female population and labor force
participation rates after the oil boycott, 1975 1985 33
3.1 Variations in monthly salary (KD) and working hours
per week among some major nationality groups in
Kuwait (males), 1983 55
3.2 Population pyramids for Kuwaitis and non Kuwaitis, 1988 61
3.3 Percentage distribution of labor force in Kuwait
according to educational status, 1985 63
3.4 Percentage distribution of the economically active
population by sex, nationality group, and major
occupational groups, 1985 63
3.5 Number of cases of naturalization, 1979 1988 72
3.6 Percentage distribution of Arab and Asian labor force
in GCC states, 1980 74
7.1 Proportion of women in the labor force by distribution of
household income (private households only) 197
7.2 Number of marriages between Kuwaiti men and foreign
women, by wife s nationality 217
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x Tables and Figure
9.1 Population in Kuwait in 1995 243
9.2 Labor force in Kuwait in 1995 244
Figure
5.1 Scale of gender identity in Kuwait 131
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