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Andrew Gardner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound, is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Qatar University. His book about the Indian migrant community in Bahrain, City of Strangers, will be published by ILR/Cornell University Press in Spring 2010. Author photograph by Kristin Giordano.
Over the past decade, migration to the wealthy states of the Arabian Peninsula has emerged as an increasingly central facet of scholarly attention to the region. This attention has resulted in the exponential expansion of our collective knowledge, and the near future promises even more nuanced and microcosmic analyses as recent and current fieldwork in the region bears fruit. Nevertheless, there has been little discussion of the “labor camps” in which many of the unskilled migrants dwell during their sojourn in the Gulf states.
