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OverviewA vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams is about the imagination which migration thrives on, and the hopes and ambitions generated by the repeated experience of leaving and returning home. What kind of dreams for a good or better life drives labor migrants? What does being a migrant worker do to one's hopes and ambitions? How does the experience of migration to the Gulf, with its attendant economic and legal precarities, shape migrants' particular dreams of a better life? What do those dreams-be they realistic and productive, or fantastic and unlikely-do to the social worlds of the people who pursue them, and to their families and communities back home upon their return? Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and conversations with Egyptian men from mostly low-income rural backgrounds who migrated as workers to the Gulf, returned home, and migrated again over a period of about a decade, this fine-grained study explores and engages with these questions and more, as the men reflect on their strivings and the dreams they hope to fulfill. Throughout the book, Samuli Schielke highlights the story of one man, Tawfiq, who is particularly gifted at analyzing his own situation and struggles, resulting in a richly nuanced account that will appeal not only to Middle East scholars, but to anyone interested in the lived lives of labor migrants and what their experiences ultimately mean to them. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuli SchielkePublisher: The American University in Cairo Press Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press Weight: 0.214kg ISBN: 9789774169564ISBN 10: 9774169565 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 10 April 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Preface 1. Truman Show 2. The Travel to Doha 3. Guarding the Bank 4. A Narrow Circle 5. Enduring and Resisting 6. Families Only 7. Everything Circles around Money Here 8. Things Money Must Buy 9. Dreaming of the Inevitable 10. To Have Other Dreams 11. A Bigger Prison 12. Until the End of Oil 13. Normality and Excess 14. Estrangement and Faith 15. The Shine of the Metropolis 16: Economy is Not Rational, and Fantasy is not Free ReferencesReviewsMigrant Dreams will make an excellent addition to any library and undergraduate or graduate course reading list, particularly those on global migration and capital flows, hope and subjectivity, or the Middle East. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Author InformationSamuli Schielke is a research fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications including most recently, Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 (2015) and The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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