Situating migrant labor in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar -- Beyond labor : foreign residents in the Persian Gulf states / Attiya Ahmad -- Why do they keep coming? : labor migrants in the Gulf states / Andrew Gardner -- Socio-spatial boundaries in Abu Dhabi / Jane Bristol Rhys -- Informality and its discontents : mapping migrant worker trajectories into Dubai's informal economy / Pardis Mahdavi -- Migration, networks, and connectedness across the Indian Ocean / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella -- India-Gulf migration : corruption and capacity in regulating recruitment agencies / Mary Breeding -- Nepali migrants to the Gulf cooperation council countries : values, behaviors, and plans / Nathalie E. Williams, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel -- The legal regulation of migrant workers, politics, and identity in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates / David Mednicoff -- Protecting migrants' rights in the Gulf cooperation council / Susan F. Martin -- Index.