Temporary People
Details Author Reviews Description Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship, endures miserabl Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship, endures miserable living conditions, and is ultimately forced to leave the country. Until now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called guest workers of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs. Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those whove fallen from buildings in progress, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perishuntil they dont, and found a rebel community in the desert. Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship, endures miserabl Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate... Read More
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