Gender and migration in the Arabian Gulf /

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of gender and migration in the Arabian Gulf, challenging dominant narratives that reduce women's migration to domestic labor and caregiving.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rajan, S. Irudaya (Editor), Balan, Divya (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2026]
Series:Gulf studies (Singapore) ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Gendered Mobilities: Reconceptualising the Intersectional Experiences of Women Migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
  • Pushing Migrant Women In and Out of Labour Markets and Migratory Circuits
  • Gendering Emigration Policy: Promoting and Constraining Womens Migration to the Gulf
  • Female Domestic Workers in the Persian Gulf
  • The Differentiated Post-Migration Mobilities of High-Skilled Indian Women in the UAE
  • Indian Nurses in the Gulf and the UK: The Role of Aspirations and Communities
  • Now, I would prefer the Gulf: Indian Migrant Nurses Renewed Perspective on the Gulf Countries
  • Middling Madams: Gender, Informal Economy, and Class Fluidity in the United Arab Emirates
  • Indian Women in Business in the Gulf Region, Veiled Assets?
  • Unsettled Homes, Rooted Lives: Rethinking Belonging through Bangladeshi Migrant Womens Transnational Homemaking Experience
  • Indian Women Working in the Gulf: Citizenship, Class, and the Imagination of India.