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Contents and Abstracts1Im/mobilities and Im/Migrations chapter abstractThe opening chapter provides the theoretical framework of the book. It introduces the concept of "intimate im/mobilities" and explores the alternative frameworks of im/mobility and im/migration. This chapter presents the book's three main interconnected arguments. First, that migration is impacted by individuals' intimate lives and vice versa. Second, through narrating the intimate lives of laborers, the book explores the mutually constitutive forces of mobility and immobility. Finally, in looking at the mutually re-enforcing notions of im/mobility, the book explores the liminal space between immigration and migration. This chapter lays out these main arguments/framings to introduce the core themes that will be fleshed out through the individual chapters. It also provides a brief methodological and historical background to help set the stage for the ethnographic chapters to follow.2Love, Labor and the Law chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the confluence of love, labor and the law by focusing on the regulation of migrant women's sexualities while they are in the Gulf. Migrant women increasingly comprise the m

Who reads Crossing the Gulf : Love and Family in Migrant Lives?

Author

Mahdavi, Pardis

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804798839

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science