Dependence, disdain, and distance: State, labor, and citizenship in the Arab Gulf states

Industrialization in the Gulf: A Socioeconomic Revolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-142

  Okruhlik, Gwenn ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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