Research Catalog

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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Details

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