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Offshore citizens : permanent temporary status in the Gulf
- Title
- Offshore citizens : permanent temporary status in the Gulf / Noora Lori.
- Author
- Lori, Noora, 1984-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- x, 293 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- When it comes to extending citizenship to some groups, why might ruling political elites say neither 'yes' nor 'no, ' but 'wait'? The dominant theories of citizenship tend to recognize clear distinctions between citizens and aliens; either one has citizenship or one does not. This book shows that not all populations are fully included or expelled by a state; they can be suspended in limbo - residing in a territory for protracted periods without accruing citizenship rights. This in-depth case study of the United Arab Emirates uses new archival sources and extensive interviews to show how temporary residency be transformed into a permanent legal status. Temporary residency can informally become permanent through visa renewals and the postponement of naturalization cases. In the UAE, temporary residency was also codified into a formal citizenship status through the outsourcing of passports from the Union of Comoros, allowing elites to effectively re-classify minorities into foreign residents.
- Subject
- Citizenship > United Arab Emirates
- Noncitizens > United Arab Emirates
- Foreign workers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United Arab Emirates
- Emigration and immigration law > United Arab Emirates
- Noncitizens
- Citizenship
- Emigration and immigration
- Emigration and immigration law
- Foreign workers > Legal status, laws, etc
- StaatsangehoÌ#x88;rigkeit
- Arbeitnehmer
- Migration
- Nationalismus
- Staatenlosigkeit
- Staatsangehörigkeit
- United Arab Emirates > Emigration and immigration
- United Arab Emirates
- Golfstaaten
- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index.
- Contents
- Limbo statuses and precarious citizenship -- Making the nation : citizens, "guests," and ambiguous legal statuses -- Demographic growth, migrant policing, and naturalization as a "national security" threat -- Permanently deportable : the formal and informal institutions of the kafāla system -- "Taāl bachir" (come tomorrow) : the politics of waiting for identity papers -- Identity regularization and passport outsourcing : turning minorities into foreigners.
- ISBN
- 9781108498173
- 1108498175
- 9781108705561
- 1108705561
- 9781108586184 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019011899
- OCLC
- on1090859560
- 1090859560
- SCSB-9529921
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library