Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond

About the author

Natasha Iskander is associate professor of urban planning and public policy at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Additional text

"Winner of the John Friedman Best Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning"

Product details

• Authors: Natasha Iskander, Iskander Natasha
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.11.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
• EAN: 9780691217574
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21757-4
• Pages: 360
• Subjects: Motivation, Symptom, Politics, Human Resources, skill, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Profession, Recruitment, Social Protection, Workforce, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, human body, Qatar, Welfare, Employment, Cognition, Informant, Adviser, Construction, Infrastructure, Supervisor, Credibility, Migration, immigration & emigration, Citizenship, Human Rights Watch, Human Capital, Migration, immigration and emigration, Embodied Cognition, quality control, Payment, Sociology: work & labour, productivity, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Wage, Urban communities, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Sociology: work and labour, effectiveness, Human behavior, Inspection, Harry Braverman, personhood, remuneration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, nationality, interdependence, availability, prospecting, coercion, Safety Culture, absorptive capacity, Police Accountability, Occupational Safety and Health, Design Knowledge, kafala system, Cognitive model, plausible deniability, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples / groups with shared heritage, Labor Relations, Salary, Laborer, Obedience (human behavior), Race (human categorization), Developed country, Human skin color, Migrant worker, labor camp, Knowledge worker, Informational interview, Identity document, Unfree labour, Betterment, Subcontractor, Repatriation (humans), Impressment, Labour power, Bodily integrity, On Your Behalf, Competence (human resources), Foreign worker, Welder