{"product_id":"gridlock-labor-migration-and-human-trafficking-in-dubai-hardcover","title":"Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePardis Mahdavi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant workers are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like anyone else, they make choices to better their lives, though the risk of ending up in bad situations is high. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegislators hoping to combat human trafficking focus heavily on women and sex work, but there is real potential for abuse of both male and female migrants in a variety of areas of employment--whether on the street, in a field, at a restaurant, or at someone's house. \u003ci\u003eGridlock\u003c\/i\u003e explores how migrants' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions--and global moral panic--about human trafficking. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMahdavi powerfully contrasts migrants' own stories with interviews with U.S. policy makers, revealing the gaping disconnect between policies on human trafficking and the realities of forced labor and migration in the Persian Gulf. To work toward solving this global problem, we need to be honest about what trafficking is--and is not--and to finally get past the stereotypes about trafficked persons so we can really understand the challenges migrant workers are living through every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College and is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePassionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2008). She previously was editor-in-chief for \u003ci\u003eSlant Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund, and has written for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451444773042,"sku":"9780804772204","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e31351d72335c4d678bf149def8c037b.webp?v=1778794898","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/gridlock-labor-migration-and-human-trafficking-in-dubai-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}