0603, 2019

Can Europe Learn From UAE Diversity?

By Caroline Osella|March 6, 2019|Media, project outputs|0 comments

I’ve been working for many years now between India and the Gulf and am not naive about how remittance and migration economies work, nor about how states operate. I have to begin with this disclaimer, because in a landscape of binary thinking and quick-fire analysis, it is easy to jump into judgement. My close ethnographic work among a range of migrants – many of whom are skilled technical and professional,

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1002, 2019

Border Ethnography: Part 2

By Caroline Osella|February 10, 2019|project outputs, Uncategorized|2 comments

I wrote in my last post about the ways in which long-term ethnographic work opens up unanticipated themes which then demand our attention. Border ethnography (see examples here , here and here) has pushed itself into the REALM project. I am currently writing up a traditional academic paper about a complex case history of an Indian migrant worker who was badly treated by his (UK passport holding) ex-pat employer in the Gulf. The

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