The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes
human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely
acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the
laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase
the challenges faced by migrants and their kin. In some cases, the
laws themselves lead to illegality or statelessness, particularly
for migrant mothers and their children. Crossing the Gulf tells the
stories of the intimate lives of migrants in the Gulf cities of
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Pardis Mahdavi reveals the
interconnections between migration and emotion, between family and
state policy, and shows how migrants can be both mobilized and
immobilized by their family relationships and the bonds of love
they share across borders. The result is an absorbing and literally
moving ethnography that illuminates the mutually reinforcing and
constitutive forces that impact the lives of migrants and their
loved ones-and how profoundly migrants are underserved by policies
that more often lead to their illegality, statelessness,
deportation, detention, and abuse than to their aid.
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