Andrew M Gardner

Biographic Data

ID650858
NAMEAndrew M Gardner
GIVEN NAMESAndrew M
FAMILY NAMEGardner
SIGNATUREGARDNER A M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS122
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

    Open AccessA Gardner, Andrew M GardnerBOOKCity of Strangers2017Cited by: 2References: 42

    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…

  • Gulf Migration and the Family

    A Gardner, Andrew M GardnerARTICLEJournal of Arabian Studies2011

    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…

  • City of Strangers

    Open AccessAndrew M GardnerBOOKCity of Strangers2010

    In anthropological parlance, "key informants" are those individuals native to the communities we study who emerge as integral to the anthropologist's inquiry.Although I found many individuals willing to share their time and thoughts with me, I hesitate to call them "informants," for that title somehow seems too formal and oddly traitorous to stand for these relationships.There were many individuals whose contributions were essential to the writin…

  • City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

    Open AccessAndrew M Gardner, Andrew GardnerBOOKCity of strangers2010Cited by: 104References: 40

    In anthropological parlance, "key informants" are those individuals native to the communities we study who emerge as integral to the anthropologist's inquiry.Although I found many individuals willing to share their time and thoughts with me, I hesitate to call them "informants," for that title somehow seems too formal and oddly traitorous to stand for these relationships.There were many individuals whose contributions were essential to the writin…

  • Strategic Transnationalism: The Indian Diasporic Elite in Contemporary Bahrain

    Open AccessAndrew M GardnerARTICLECity & Society2008Cited by: 16References: 16

    This paper provides an ethnographic window into the lives of the middle and upper classes of the substantial Indian diaspora in Bahrain. Like all the Gulf States, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large contingent of guest workers. Through a variety of historical conjunctures, Indians have long predominated in the flow of foreigners to the small island. In this paper I consider the experiences of the elite minority of that diaspora. While many asp…

  • The Long Haul from Deregulation: Truck Drivers and Social Capital in the Louisiana Oilpatch

    A Gardner, Andrew M GardnerARTICLEHuman Organization2002

    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.…