Gridlock : Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai.

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The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mahdavi, Pardis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Foreign workers > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate)
Forced labor > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate)
Human trafficking > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate)
Travail forcé > Émirats arabes unis > Dubayy (Émirat)
Traite des êtres humains > Émirats arabes unis > Dubayy (Émirat)
Travailleurs étrangers > Émirats arabes unis > Dubayy (Émirat)
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Forced labor
Foreign workers
Human trafficking
Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue; 1. Trafficking Trafficking; 2. Dubai Inc.; 3. Sex Work; 4. Migration in Context; 5. Labor Outside Law; 6. An (Un)Civil Society; 7. Building Towers, Building Structures; 8. Building Castles in the Sand; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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