City of Strangers

Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain

Bibliographic Data

ID5770188
AuthorsAndrew M Gardner, Andrew Gardner (0000-0002-5769-677X)
Year2010
Pages188
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCity of strangers (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26530/oapen_627411
OpenAlexW1598456579
Open LibraryOL24029434M
ISBN9780801448829
LanguageEN
Citations received147
References cited79

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 writing of this book, but those who proved most key were foremost my friends, and our afternoons and evenings spent drinking coffee, carousing through the nightlife of Bahrain, sharing a meal, walking along the corniche, or smoking sheesha yielded a lively intellectual atmosphere that made my time on the island all the more enjoyable.With that caveat in mind, I foremost thank S.K. for taking me under his wing.A pharmacist by training, he was born with a seemingly boundless desire to make the world a better place, a trait readily apparent in his unyielding penchant for service to those less fortunate.This book would not have been possible without his help.I also thank Ashish Gorde and Dhafi al-Mannai, both good friends, and Naman Arora, a student at the Indian School who somehow found the time to serve as my fi eld assistant

Geography · Political science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Bahrain · East Indian Foreign workers · East Indians · emigration and immigration · Ethnic relations · Ethnology · foreign countries · Foreign workers · Foreign workers, East Indian · India · Middle east · Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography · Social conditions · Violence against

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