A Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0827-2014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The pillars of protection: Wage security, legal awareness, and migrant rights in a reforming Qatar
How and to what degree have the foundational drivers of migrant worker welfare changed? Our paper addresses this question through a cross-sectional comparative analysis of two unique datasets of migrant workers in Qatar: a historical benchmark (2017–2021) and a new post-reform survey (2024). The comparison relies on two independent cross-sections of different workers as opposed to longitudinal tracking of the same individuals. We use survey-weigh…
Contemporary Women in Qatar: An Ethnographic Study of Their Challenges in Terms of Traditional Applications and Modern Requirements
This study analyzes the interaction and friction between tradition and modernity as experienced by Qatari women. We explore the experiences and perspectives of contemporary Qatari women across generations and their continuity and friction with the historical sociocultural past. The general aim was to discern and analyze the sociological reasons that encourage and/or inhibit women’s participation in public life. The working hypothesis was that the…
The Donkey Trail: A Difficult New Migrant Pathway to the U.S. Border
Cosmopolitanism and Urban Space in Doha, Qatar
This essay commences with an ethnographic sojourn through the Industrial Area, a peripheral zone of the urban landscape in Doha, Qatar that is densely inhabited by low wage migrant laborers. In this segregated urban enclave, I ascertain the openness to alterity and the interactions with difference that connect their experiences to the conceptual legacy of cosmopolitanism. Via a discussion of the segregated experiences of transnational migrants in…
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia…
Debates in Personalisation
As one of the editors suggests, personalisation is a bit like Marmite—you either love it or you hate it (Glasby, 2014). This book immediately challenges the reader to engage with perspectives from both advocates and critics in one space. This is a welcome approach to a limited body of literature on the subject which, to date, has struggled to provide balance and measure to the debate, as passion for the concept runs high at both ends of the spect…
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling strategies. This paper presents the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar. The data describe the basic characteristics of the low-income migrant population in Qatar, the process by w…
Tribalism, Identity and Citizenship in Contemporary Qatar
This article examines the resurgence of tribalism as a sociological component of contemporary Qatari society. Utilising an ethnographic, mixed-methods design, the article begins with a survey of the substantial scholarship concerning tribes in Arabia. That scholarship provides ideas and understandings that only partially explain the vitality of contemporary tribalism. The article then demonstrates tribalism's ongoing social importance by analysin…
Gulf Migration and the Family
For many decades the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have served as primary migratory destinations for tens of millions of individuals from South Asia, West Asia, and other points in the Indian Ocean world. While both historic and substantial in scale, these migration flows remain some of the most understudied movements in the contemporary world. This paper begins with an overview of the current state of scholarship concerned with Gulf mig…
The Long Haul from Deregulation: Truck Drivers and Social Capital in the Louisiana Oilpatch
Southern Louisiana has played host to the oil industry for nearly a century. While much of the contemporary activity is offshore, the communities of southern Louisiana provide labor and support to this vast enterprise. Truck-based transportation is one component of this support industry. In the past, the trucking industry meshed with the social and familial networks of the region, but state-level deregulation has rendered these connections inert.…
Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain
1Institute of Archaeology, University College London Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain Guyde la Bédoyère StroudTempus Publishing 2001256£25
Why did postperinatal mortality rates fall in the 1970s
Postperinatal mortality rates have shown two phases of decline since 1947 which are traditionally ascribed to social and medical improvements. These factors cannot, however, explain the arrest of decline during the 1960s. There appears to be a biological effect on child mortality rates, manifesting as a generation effect. This is due partly to continuing changes in the structure of the child population, itself a consequence of social and biologic…
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Tribalism, Identity and Citizenship in Contemporary Qatar
This article examines the resurgence of tribalism as a sociological component of contemporary Qatari society. Utilising an ethnographic, mixed-methods design, the article begins with a survey of the substantial scholarship concerning tribes in Arabia. That scholarship provides ideas and understandings that only partially explain the vitality of contemporary tribalism. The article then demonstrates tribalism's ongoing social importance by analysin…
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia…
Association News
Why did postperinatal mortality rates fall in the 1970s
Postperinatal mortality rates have shown two phases of decline since 1947 which are traditionally ascribed to social and medical improvements. These factors cannot, however, explain the arrest of decline during the 1960s. There appears to be a biological effect on child mortality rates, manifesting as a generation effect. This is due partly to continuing changes in the structure of the child population, itself a consequence of social and biologic…
The Long Haul from Deregulation: Truck Drivers and Social Capital in the Louisiana Oilpatch
Southern Louisiana has played host to the oil industry for nearly a century. While much of the contemporary activity is offshore, the communities of southern Louisiana provide labor and support to this vast enterprise. Truck-based transportation is one component of this support industry. In the past, the trucking industry meshed with the social and familial networks of the region, but state-level deregulation has rendered these connections inert.…
Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain
1Institute of Archaeology, University College London Eagles Over Britannia: The Roman Army in Britain Guyde la Bédoyère StroudTempus Publishing 2001256£25
Gulf Migration and the Family
For many decades the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have served as primary migratory destinations for tens of millions of individuals from South Asia, West Asia, and other points in the Indian Ocean world. While both historic and substantial in scale, these migration flows remain some of the most understudied movements in the contemporary world. This paper begins with an overview of the current state of scholarship concerned with Gulf mig…
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling strategies. This paper presents the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar. The data describe the basic characteristics of the low-income migrant population in Qatar, the process by w…
Tribalism, Identity and Citizenship in Contemporary Qatar
This article examines the resurgence of tribalism as a sociological component of contemporary Qatari society. Utilising an ethnographic, mixed-methods design, the article begins with a survey of the substantial scholarship concerning tribes in Arabia. That scholarship provides ideas and understandings that only partially explain the vitality of contemporary tribalism. The article then demonstrates tribalism's ongoing social importance by analysin…
Debates in Personalisation
As one of the editors suggests, personalisation is a bit like Marmite—you either love it or you hate it (Glasby, 2014). This book immediately challenges the reader to engage with perspectives from both advocates and critics in one space. This is a welcome approach to a limited body of literature on the subject which, to date, has struggled to provide balance and measure to the debate, as passion for the concept runs high at both ends of the spect…
City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia…
Cosmopolitanism and Urban Space in Doha, Qatar
This essay commences with an ethnographic sojourn through the Industrial Area, a peripheral zone of the urban landscape in Doha, Qatar that is densely inhabited by low wage migrant laborers. In this segregated urban enclave, I ascertain the openness to alterity and the interactions with difference that connect their experiences to the conceptual legacy of cosmopolitanism. Via a discussion of the segregated experiences of transnational migrants in…
Contemporary Women in Qatar: An Ethnographic Study of Their Challenges in Terms of Traditional Applications and Modern Requirements
This study analyzes the interaction and friction between tradition and modernity as experienced by Qatari women. We explore the experiences and perspectives of contemporary Qatari women across generations and their continuity and friction with the historical sociocultural past. The general aim was to discern and analyze the sociological reasons that encourage and/or inhibit women’s participation in public life. The working hypothesis was that the…
The Donkey Trail: A Difficult New Migrant Pathway to the U.S. Border
The pillars of protection: Wage security, legal awareness, and migrant rights in a reforming Qatar
How and to what degree have the foundational drivers of migrant worker welfare changed? Our paper addresses this question through a cross-sectional comparative analysis of two unique datasets of migrant workers in Qatar: a historical benchmark (2017–2021) and a new post-reform survey (2024). The comparison relies on two independent cross-sections of different workers as opposed to longitudinal tracking of the same individuals. We use survey-weigh…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (4 works)