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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: Media, human rights, and even scholarly discourses about the experiences of noncitizens living and working in the GCC rely overwhelmingly on narratives of socio-political exclusion and economic exploitation. The central emphasis on ethnocracy and the kafala ... read moresponsorship system often obscures the multifaceted nature of Gulf residents’ everyday interactions with one another, interactions which go beyond the segmenting effects of ethnically-motivated citizenship and migration policies. Building off of existing Gulf migration literature and through a network analysis of formal and informal relations among employees at a Kuwaiti construction company, this paper paints a richer picture of how residents with different ethnic and class backgrounds relate to one another. The case demonstrates the utility of network analysis in augmenting ethnographic studies of Gulf societies, laying the groundwork for more extensive future research. Advisor: Prof.
Christopher Tunnard.read less
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