Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of the Global System    by Andrew Gardner
Price: $2.99 USD. 37090 words. Published on April 5, 2012. Nonfiction.
Every year, tens of thousands of men and women from South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world journey to Qatar and the other petroleum-rich states of the Arabian peninsula to work. Constructing Qatar, containing eighteen meticulously crafted migrant stories and two photo essays, is an attempt to illuminate the experiences and perspectives of these transnational laborers.