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Social Networks: Informal Solidarities and an Ethic of “Care”

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Migrant Dubai

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We drove far out of the limits of the city, past the Jebel Ali port into the stretches of unmarked desert you traverse before reaching the limits of Abu Dhabi. The cemetery was nothing more than a compound of sand with makeshift walls made out of plastic that was already coming apart at several places. I was told that after the plot beside the nearby church had become full, the newer graves were forced to spill over into this more temporary area, clearly indicative not just of the high numbers of migrant deaths in Dubai but also of the lack of infrastructure to deal with such collateral consequences of the city’s growth in migrant numbers.

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Kathiravelu, L. (2016). Social Networks: Informal Solidarities and an Ethic of “Care”. In: Migrant Dubai. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450180_6

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