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Slave States
A stark expose of the enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and general abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region.
GREEN CARD BRIDES
Green Card Brides offers a personal and poignant exploration of the American Dream's elusiveness. The narrative follows the author's struggle to make ends meet while working long shifts as a caregiver and Uber driver, all while applying for legal status in hopes of bringing his wife and children to join him. However, this book transcends individual experience, serving as a clarifying backdrop for the global migrant crisis and a rallying cry for change. The author shares not only his own story, marked by taking on 3D (dirty, dangerous, and demeaning) jobs to survive, but also the stories of other migrants encountered along the way. Through these tales, "Green Card Brides" provides a rare and emotional insider's look at what it's like to leave everything behind in pursuit of a better life, only to face constant obstacles. The author's harrowing journey as a Black African essential worker highlights the need for a shift away from corporate greed and exploitation, advocating for a different political conversation about why so many migrants look westward for better lives.
Why We Are Coming
Why We Are Coming points toward an enlightened path away from corporate greed, exploitation, and plunder. Kakande calls for a renewed political conversation about why so many Africans look westward and how their plight informs the world about similar migrations. His charm and gripping experience bring even those who hadn't considered their role into the journey.
Religion, Authority, and the State
In commemoration of Constantine’s grant of freedom of religion to Christians, this wide-ranging volume examines the ambiguous legacy of this emperor in relation to the present world, discussing the perennial challenges of relations between religions and governments. The authors examine the new global ecumenical movement inspired by Pentecostals, the role of religion in the Irish Easter rebellion against the British, and the relation between religious freedom and government in the United States. Other essays debate the relation of Islam to the violence in Nigeria, the place of the family in church-state relations in the Philippines, the role of confessional identity in the political struggles in the Balkans, and the construction of Slavophile identity in nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox political theology. The volume also investigates the contrast between written constitutions and actual practice in the relations between governments and religions in Australia, Indonesia, and Egypt. The case studies and surveys illuminate both specific contexts and also widespread currents in religion-state relations across the world.
Precarity and Belonging
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless peopl...
THE AMBITIOUS STRUGGLE
Dubai is the modern epitome of cosmopolitanism. Its 21st century panoply of economic opportunities reinforces the inviting veneer of its cosmopolitanism, which, at least, appears on the surface to be as enlightened as one would expect in a community that thrives on a monumental scale of innovation and enterprise. Dubai’s promise of lifelong prosperity and economic justice has attracted many citizens from all over the world – especially from underdeveloped countries such as Uganda. Success comes easily for some but also frustratingly slow for others. Sadly, many also must give up their dreams, as they realize that even in a desert oasis of so much economic promise the quest for tolerance,...
The Ambitious Struggle
A fascinating and gripping account of life in the United Arab Emirates, as seen and reported on by a Ugandan journalist resident for over a decade in Dubai. The first such account of its kind, in outlining the duties he was assigned (in print and broadcast media) and the news events that made it (or did not make it) into the print and and broadcast media, one gains a keen look at the points of sensitivity in th complex society of the UAE.
The Migration Conference 2023 Selected Papers
The Migration Conference 2023 Selected Papers includes short papers from several tracks that were included in the TMC 2023 Hamburg programme. Migration Conferences are annual scholarly gatherings accommodating debates about migration, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, integration, diasporas and all other relevant topics from various social science disciplines while also hosting debates involving policy makers, media and third sector representatives. The Migration Conference 2023 was hosted by the Faculty of Law at Hamburg University in Germany. Details of the conference programme and the links to the online sessions can be inspected here. www.migrationconference.net | @migrationevent | fb....
Dubai
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence. In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a playground for the global elite while skillfully downplaying its systemic human rights abuses and suppression of dissent. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality. In Dubai: Gilded Cage, sociologist Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzl...
Rentier Islamism
While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier states" where taxes are very low and oil wealth subsidizes the needs of citizens, are largely unaffected by such movements. Using contemporary history and original empirical research, Courtney Freer updates traditional rentier state theory and argues that political Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens.
