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Andrea Wright

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Labor, migration, and oil in India, the Arabian Peninsula, and globally. Author of Between Dreams and Ghosts (SUP 2021) and Unruly Labor (SUP 2024)

Joined July 2007
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Unruly Labor by Andrea Wright offers a new history of Middle Eastern oil and twentieth-century capitalism—a history that illuminates how labor management and national security concerns have shaped state governance and economic policy priorities. #ReadUP sup.org/books/middle-e…

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On March 1st at 15PM (CET) we will be in conversation with Andrea Wright @agwa & Munira Khayyat @mu_kha2 to discuss the intimate, precarious and lived realities of migrant oil workers in the Middle East Register bit.ly/3ZWy57v Full program bit.ly/3XRoRqY

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Thank you, Neilesh, for taking the time to discuss Between Dreams and Ghosts with me! @NeileshBose @stanfordpress

Neilesh Bose and Andrea Wright discuss the dreams and realities of Indian Gulf migrants and how this contributes to the reshaping of global capitalism. Includes an excerpt, "The Rig and the Temple" from Wright's recent book. maidaanam.com/between-dreams…



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New episode live! In this conversation, I speak to @agwa on her @stanfordpress book Between Dreams and Ghosts, an ethnography of Indian migration to the Gulf. open.spotify.com/episode/3jpOFa…


I had a great time talking with Karthik Nachiappan about my book, Between Dreams and Ghosts, for the Lekh Podcast! @Lekhpodcast @karthiknach @stanfordpress open.spotify.com/episode/3jpOFa…


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The book follows the migration of Indians into the Gulf, from villages in India to oil projects in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and back again. "Andrea Wright, Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration & Middle Eastern Oil (New Texts Out Now)" buff.ly/373XyVG

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In this week's podcast @abuaardvark chats with Andrea Wright about her new book, Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil. Also: short segments with Basileus Zeno on his new article & Renad Mansour on Iraq. Listen here! pomeps.org/16013-2


Looking forward to tomorrow and day 2 of this incredible conference: In and Out of South Asia inandoutofsouthasia.com (website and registration)


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Join us on Nov 16 for our newest New Books in Asian Studies event on South Asian Migrations in Global History, with editor @NeileshBose and contributors @carrasco_kent and @agwa Sigur Director Benjamin Hopkins will moderate. RSVP: ow.ly/ttz450GzH6f

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I'm very excited that my book, Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil, is officially out today!

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I'm looking forward to participating in this conversation tomorrow on labor migration! …ondthefutureofwork.rapoportcenter.org/event/heroes-o…


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Congratulations to @QuraishiPhD this year's recipient of the Theodore Saloutos Prize for the Best Book in US Immigration/Ethnic History uncpress.org/book/978146965…


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Delighted to be joined by Dr. Andrea Wright (@agwa) in this week’s @BrunelAnth Research Seminar. ‘The Rig and the Mandir: Indian Migrant Laborers’ Engagements with Modernity and the State’. DM for links and join us tomorrow (Tues 2nd Feb) @ 13:00 🛢️🛕


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We different but we fam

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We published this a month ago. The lack of urgency, action, and response from state and local leaders continues to sadden me. And astonish me. Even me. Even now. businessinsider.com/failure-to-rel…


Thank you, Middle East Report, for giving me the opportunity to write about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indian migrant workers in the Gulf States #COVID19 #MigrantWorkers merip.org/2020/04/no-goo…


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