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Conclusion
Abstract
This book interrogates the everyday experiences of migrants who labour in Dubai and the structures that shape their stories through neoliber-alism as a conceptual frame to understand processes of city-building, labour migration and migrant lives. In doing so, it goes beyond analyses of neoliberal development that examine only its global centres of development or adoption by powerful global institutions (cf. Stenning, Smith et al. 2008: 229). In employing a localised ethnography of the everyday lives of labour migrants, this book provides a grounded and nuanced assessment of engagements with processes of neoliberal development. This exploration of neoliberalism has been undertaken through a variety of empirical frames: popular discourses and representations of Dubai that work as powerful metaphors of international resonance, the layered structures that shape the relationships migrants have with receiving and sending states, low-wage migrants’ construction of subjectivities under marginalised circumstances, the polarised socio-spatial relations in the city and, last, informal migrant networks. Although the impossibility of a totalising narrative is acknowledged, together, they form a wideranging picture of neoliberalism’s engagement with labour migrants and the processes of labour migration in Dubai.
Keywords
Labour Migration Hegemonic Masculinity Equitable Outcome International Labour Migration Migrant LifePreview
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