Building Community? Analyzing Gated Housing Compounds in Bahrain
[Thesis]
Zia Ulhaq Salim
Bosco, Fernando J.
University of California, Santa Barbara
2014
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Committee members: Clarke, Keith C.; Couclelis, Helen; Joassart-Marcelli, Pascale
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-20298-4
Ph.D.
Geography, Joint Program SDSU
University of California, Santa Barbara
2014
Rapid and radical socioeconomic transformations have accompanied the development of the hydrocarbon-exporting economies of the Arab Gulf states. The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are some of the largest recipients of labor migrants in the world, and the region has the second highest rate of urbanization in the world. Given these changes, it is critical to understand the urban impacts of migration flows that have dramatically increased the proportion of foreigners in the cities of the Gulf.
Geography; Middle Eastern Studies; Social structure; Urban planning
Social sciences;Gated communities;Gulf studies;Sense of community;Social networks;Transnationalism;Urban geography