Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar, editors.

"Published in collaboration with Georgetown University's Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Situating migrant labor in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar -- Beyond labor : foreign residents in the Persian Gulf states / Attiya Ahmad -- Why do they keep coming? : labor migrants in the Gulf states / Andrew Gardner -- Socio-spatial boundaries in Abu Dhabi / Jane Bristol Rhys -- Informality and its discontents : mapping migrant worker trajectories into Dubai's informal economy / Pardis Mahdavi -- Migration, networks, and connectedness across the Indian Ocean / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella -- India-Gulf migration : corruption and capacity in regulating recruitment agencies / Mary Breeding -- Nepali migrants to the Gulf cooperation council countries : values, behaviors, and plans / Nathalie E. Williams, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel -- The legal regulation of migrant workers, politics, and identity in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates / David Mednicoff -- Protecting migrants' rights in the Gulf cooperation council / Susan F. Martin -- Index.