Andrea Wright (@agwa) 's Twitter Profile
Andrea Wright

@agwa

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

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I’m delighted to report that men get to productively inhabit their anxiety! In contrast, women must learn to balance all their obligations to be superwomen. Airport bookstores are so interesting #Patriarchy #masculinity

I’m delighted to report that men get to productively inhabit their anxiety!  In contrast, women must learn to balance all their obligations to be superwomen. Airport bookstores are so interesting  #Patriarchy #masculinity
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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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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…

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Delighted to be joined by Dr. Andrea Wright (Andrea Wright) 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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I'm looking forward to participating in this conversation tomorrow on labor migration! …ondthefutureofwork.rapoportcenter.org/event/heroes-o…

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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 Daniel Kent Carrasco and Andrea Wright. Sigur Director Benjamin Hopkins will moderate. RSVP: ow.ly/ttz450GzH6f

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 <a href="/carrasco_kent/">Daniel Kent Carrasco</a> and <a href="/agwa/">Andrea Wright</a>. 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!

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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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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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

Jadaliyya (@jadaliyya) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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 &amp; Middle Eastern Oil (New Texts Out Now)"

buff.ly/373XyVG
Lekh (@lekhpodcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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

omam (@omamulb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On March 1st at 15PM (CET) we will be in conversation with Andrea Wright Andrea Wright & Munira Khayyat munira khayyat منيرة الخياط 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

On March 1st at 15PM (CET) we will be in conversation with Andrea Wright <a href="/agwa/">Andrea Wright</a> &amp; Munira Khayyat <a href="/mu_kha2/">munira khayyat منيرة الخياط</a> 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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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…

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

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