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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.
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.
Migration and borders are at the center of political debates in
South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of
safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with
individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by
telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly
crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India
living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a
young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The
international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes
to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants
and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are
engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are
transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the
Middle East, North America, and Europe.
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