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Jane Bristol Rhys, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Zayed University, explores the characteristics of migrant communities in the UAE and alternate and competing narrations of Emirati history.
A Lexicon of Migrants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The millions of foreign nationals working in the Gulf are often lumped together as “migrant workers,” but this is misleading. The population of foreign workers in the UAE, for example, is complex and heterogeneous. One layer of that complexity is manifested by the lexicon used by migrants to identify other migrants.
