... Chapter 3, “Disappearing Grounds and Backgrounds of the Gulf,” uses the concepts of background and foreground to read texts that address land loss in the Gulf wetlands. The chapter constellates an analysis of erosion in John James Audubon’s Louisiana writings and paintings of the early...

... manumission Persian Gulf Iran racism ...

... Islam domestic work transnational migration Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf (Middle East) households ...

... transnational migration citizenship migrant workers domestic work sector Indian Ocean/ Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf ...

... together the Gulf region and South Asia. It also examines the gendered juridicopolitical aporias that characterize the transnational domestic work sector, aporias that place domestic workers into precarious juridicopolitical positions that further reinscribe their “temporariness” in the Gulf...

..., when the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government, as a concession to the United States, passed a new petroleum code favoring U.S. companies. The Bolivian Gulf Oil Company soon became the largest hydrocarbon producer in the country. In the 1960s, under the right-wing dictatorship of René...

... This chapter examines how South Asian domestic workers’ experiences of migration in the Gulf are characterized by “suspension”—of their being a part of, yet apart from, their “work households” in the Gulf and their “family households” in South Asia. This chapter discusses how domestic workers...

... workers perceive themselves to be ideal transnational subjects, able to adjust to the temporariness and suspension that characterize their migration experiences, and also to have the underlying capacity to develop the skills necessary for the work they undertake in the Gulf. Being naram not only enables...

... This chapter presents the phenomenon of South Asian migrant domestic workers’ Islamic conversion in the Gulf region, the major explanations often given to account for them, and the alternative explanation of “everyday conversions” discussed in the book. Understanding the circumstances through...

... over natural resources declined after 1955, when the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government, as a concession to the United States, passed a new petroleum code favoring U.S. companies. The Bolivian Gulf Oil Company soon became the largest hydrocarbon producer in the country. In the 1960s...