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Caroline Osella teaches South Asia, Islam, and gender at the School of Oriental and Aftrican Studies, London. She has been conducting ethnographic research since 1989 between the south Indian state of Kerala and the Gulf states among Keralite migrants. She has published on a range of issues, including Muslim fashion, Islamic reformism, and migrant masculinities.
Malayali Migrant Women's Perceptions of the Gulf States
Studies of Gulf women migrants focus on the most noticeable or “problematic” categories — domestic workers and the sex trade — and are generally policy-driven short surveys, using data collected in the Gulf itself.
