Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's and Gender Studies
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Neha Vora is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the Indian diaspora, belonging, and citizenship in Dubai. She is also interested in the impacts of American universities on expatriate identities in the Arab Gulf states.
Business Elites, Unofficial Citizenship, and Privatized Governance in Dubai
Several scholars of citizenship and migration in the oil-rich Gulf Arab states have noted the divisions between citizens and non-citizens in terms of mobility, access, geographic location, job prospects, and rights (or lack thereof) in these countries.[1]These “rentier” states, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which rely on oil for the majority of their income, highly police the boundaries of citizenshi
