dc.contributor.advisor |
Hasso, Frances Susan |
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dc.contributor.author |
Alqadi, Diala |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-03-09T01:19:44Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-03-09T01:19:44Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-03-08 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11707 |
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dc.description |
Honors thesis, awarded highest honors |
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dc.description.abstract |
This project traces how and why people "without" [bidoon] citizenship emerged as a
problem in the United Arab Emirates in the 2000s. It examines the reasons the government
refuses to grant them citizenship despite regular complaints that citizens are "outnumbered"
by migrants. Chapter 2 draws on archived British documents and other sources to show
the new forms of sovereignty over territory and population that emerged as colonial
interests shifted from control of waterways to control of land and fossil fuels. It
analyzes the shifting power dynamics between British colonial powers and local rulers,
and the legal developments that preceded the formation of the federation in 1971.
The historical approach demonstrates the fluidity in power relations and the later
tensions produced by multiple jurisdictions that were in fact encouraged by British
colonial rule. Chapter 3 draws on scholarship, government sources, news, laws and
decrees to show how the bidoons were casualties of a larger population project related
to consolidating "federal" rule. It considers citizenship-related UAE laws and procedures
between 1971 and 2011 and discusses turning points and major sources of demographic
and political tension and the ways these have produced the problem of the bidoon in
the UAE. The chapter also discusses state “security” discourse and cultural anxieties
felt by Emirati citizens in relation to non-citizens and migrants and how bidoons
articulate their frustrations and make claims for citizenship online. Chapter 4, which
relies on blogs and news outlets, focuses on the dominant explanatory accounts for
why bidoons, who speak the regional Arabic dialect and have lived there for generations,
are refused citizenship. Ultimately, these accounts are insufficient as explanations
for why the bidoon problem remains.
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dc.subject |
uae, bidoon, citizenship, gulf, emirates, arab |
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dc.subject |
uae, bidoon, citizenship, gulf, emirates, arab |
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dc.title |
"The Door that Cannot be Closed": Citizens bidoon Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates |
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dc.type |
Honors thesis |
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dc.department |
International Comparative Studies |
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