Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States
Author:   Samuli Schielke
Publisher:   The American University in Cairo Press
ISBN:  

9789774169564


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   10 April 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Samuli Schielke
Publisher:   The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint:   The American University in Cairo Press
Weight:   0.214kg
ISBN:  

9789774169564


ISBN 10:   9774169565
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   10 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface 1. Truman Show 2. The Travel to Doha 3. Guarding the Bank 4. A Narrow Circle 5. Enduring and Resisting 6. Families Only 7. Everything Circles around Money Here 8. Things Money Must Buy 9. Dreaming of the Inevitable 10. To Have Other Dreams 11. A Bigger Prison 12. Until the End of Oil 13. Normality and Excess 14. Estrangement and Faith 15. The Shine of the Metropolis 16: Economy is Not Rational, and Fantasy is not Free References

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Migrant Dreams will make an excellent addition to any library and undergraduate or graduate course reading list, particularly those on global migration and capital flows, hope and subjectivity, or the Middle East. Highly recommended. --CHOICE


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Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications including most recently, Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 (2015) and The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt (2012).

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