Stateless in the Gulf - Migration, Nationality and Society in Kuwait

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. From Invisibility to Stigma: Who are the Biduns?
2. The Transnational Foundations of the Kuwaiti Emirate
3. From Shanty Bedouins to Illegal Residents
4. The Manufacturing of Illegality
5. The Emerging ‘Cause’ of the Biduns: Supporters and Opponents
6. Sans-papiers Mobilisation in an Oil Monarchy
Conclusion

About the author

Claire Beaugrand is Gulf Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. She previously worked as a Gulf Senior analyst with the International Crisis Group and as a researcher at the Institut francais du Proche Orient (Ifpo). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the LSE.

Foreword

The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals - approximately 100,000 people. In this book, the author argues that far from being an anomaly in the state system, and the position of the bidun is of central importance to any understanding of the state formation processes in the Gulf.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Beaugrand, Beaugrand Claire
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781788318020
• ISBN: 978-1-78831-802-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Kuwait, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Economic history, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Middle Eastern history, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities