Walls Built On Sand: Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait

Walls Built On Sand: Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait
ISBN-10
0429971729
ISBN-13
9780429971723
Category
Political Science
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2019-05-20
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Anh Nga Longva

Description

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society-that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in their own country. Basing her analysis on extensive fieldwork and archiv

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