Shards and Stages: Migrant Lives, Power, and Space Viewed from Doha, Qatar

Mohammad, Robina; Sidaway, James D.

doi:10.1080/24694452.2016.1209402

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“…With short deadlines, they work irregular and long hours and during hot seasons, and they live in substandard and crowded housing, as documented in construction projects in the Olympics in Beijing and the planned FIFA World Cup in Qatar 1516. Ethnographic, language, and psychosocial challenges also affect the health and social conditions of migrant construction workers concerned in big sporting events 171819…”

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Health and social needs of migrant construction workers for big sporting events

Onarheim

Phua

Babar

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BMJ

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Section: Labour Migrants’ Healthmentioning

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Health and social needs of migrant construction workers for big sporting events

Onarheim

Phua

Babar

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BMJ

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“…The Msheireb project mentioned above is an example of this ambition to establish a cutting-edge district with upscale residences, modern malls to "regenerate" the historical centre and relocate migrant workers in dedicated areas in the outskirt. This exclusion process relies on the designation of migrant workers goes as "bachelors" (Mohammad and Sidaway 2016). As a minimum wage of 2000 dollars per month is compulsory to be able to bring one's family, low-skilled migrant workers are de facto "bachelors".…”

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Global Cities and Cultural Diversity Governance: Comparing Doha and Singapore

Molho

2019

SSRN Journal

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The rise of global cities has raised multiple questions regarding the governance of diversity. While they are often portrayed as spaces of ungovernable global flows and as catalysts of the disappearance of national identities, this paper aims to analyse these cities' actions and strategies to govern their cultural diversity and defend a renewed conception of the national. I combine an analysis of outward-looking strategies that promote their cultural diversity on the global cultural field, and of inward-looking strategies that attempt to project their plural identity in the urban space. I compare two cities, Doha and Singapore, which have emerged as major centres of the global economy and offer a perspective that differs from the large Western cities where the notion of global city was initially coined. The affirmation of Doha and Singapore as global cities does not go along with a process of weakening of the nationstate, but on the contrary takes part in a logic of nation building and nation branding. The paper analyses how local actors negotiate this dialectic between the global and the national. Firstly, I show that they have put transnational regional networks and identities at the centre of the promotion of these cities as cultural hub. Secondly, I show that the recognition of these cities' diverse heritage and its display in the urban landscape, go in parallel with an increasing spatial exclusion of recent migrants.

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“…Limited research has explored the occupational, health, and social conditions that migrant workers have experienced, particularly since the year 2000 234567891011121314. To inform international and regional dialogue and policy making, we need to understand better the health needs, social situations, and occupational hazards of such workers.…”

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