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"The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without natio…
"The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals--approximately 100,000 people. With their origins in the tribes of the northern Arabian deserts (spanning today's Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Levant), they are, for most outsiders, indistinguishabl…
"The stateless (bidun) of Kuwait represent around 10 per cent of Kuwaiti nationals--approximately 100,000 people. With their origins in the tribes of the northern Arabian deserts (spanning today's Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Levant), they are, for most outsiders, indistinguishabl…
An examination of the social dimension of labour migration to Kuwait since independence. The book includes discussion of the politics of exclusion through which the Kuwaitis have protected their rights and privileges as citizens against the threat of infringement by the huge inf…
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society-that Kuwaitis are an absolute minority in t…
An examination of the social dimension of labour migration to Kuwait since independence. The book includes discussion of the politics of exclusion through which the Kuwaitis have protected their rights and privileges as citizens against the threat of infringement by the huge inf…
A young Kuwaiti surveys the ruins of his country in 2020, where is memories of childhood friendships between Sunni and Shia neighbours tell the story of Kuwait's difficult history and threats of threat of civil war and sectarianism make the future uncertain.