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Western privilege : work, intimacy, and postcolonial hierarchies in Dubai

Kuntz, Jane, Le Renard, Amélie

2021

Overview

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Subject: Arbeitsmigranten / Ausländische Arbeitnehmer / Dubai / Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) / Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects / Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects / Dubayy (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Race relations / Farbige / Foreign workers / Foreign workers -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- Social conditions -- 21st century / Gender / Hausangestellte / Heteronormativity / Hierarchie / HISTORY / General / Identität / Intimacy / Labor / Lebensweise/Lebensstil / Migration / Postcolonial studies / Postkolonialismus / race and class / Rasse / Rassismus / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / Soziale Beziehungen / Soziale Faktoren / Soziale Hierarchie / Soziale Lage / Vereinigte Arabische Emirate / Verhältnis zwischen Gruppen/Institutionen / Weiße / Westernness / Westliche Kultur / White people -- Race identity -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) / White people -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- Social conditions -- 21st century / Whiteness / Whites / Whites -- Race identity -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) / Whites -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) -- Social conditions -- 21st century / Wirtschaftliche Faktoren
• ISBN: 9781503629233, 1503629236, 9781503629240, 1503629244, 9781503613843, 1503613844