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Sharon Nagy is an associate professor of Anthropology at DePaul University. Having earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Nagy conducts ethnographic research among the foreign residents in Bahrain and Qatar.
Families and Bachelor: Visa Status, Lives, and Community Structure among Bahrain's Foreign Residents
Formal and informal practices of immigration and employment in the Gulf render inappropriate the classic image of an individual immigrant arriving to set stake and soon send for family. The majority of the foreigners in Bahrain reside there without family and until the 1980s were overwhelmingly male. Nonetheless, over the past century, the unique histories and circumstances of the various nationalities resident in Bahrain have led to the emergence and entrenchment of communities of foreigners.
