Pardis Mahdavi

Gridlock

Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gridlock explores how migrant workers' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions-and global moral panic-about human trafficking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780804772204
• ISBN-10: 0804772207
• Artikelnr.: 32739882

Autorenporträt

Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College and is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow. She is the author of Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2008). She previously was editor-in-chief for Slant Magazine, as well as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund, and has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine.