More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil
projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations
where men without formal education can find lucrative employment.
Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers
to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from
villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties
involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that
place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their
emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright
examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global
capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is
deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the
ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial
capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration
and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and
inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at
the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright
shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract
forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding
of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.
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