Migrant Memoirs
from the Middle East
A field-driven account of pink-collar labor and migration in Kuwait, told through the lived experience of its workers.
The book distills years of fieldwork among Kuwait's pink-collar workforce into a compelling, human account of migration and labor in the Gulf, giving voice to the people so often left out of the region's growth story.
View on AmazonEvery skyline has a story beneath it, of hands that built it and hearts that call it home.
Written from years of direct fieldwork, Migrant Memoirs moves between the migrant worker and the majlis, the mall and the mosque.
It follows the everyday lives of Kuwait's pink-collar workforce (the people who build, clean, cook, drive and care for the Gulf's rapidly modernizing cities) and asks what their stories reveal about labor, dignity and belonging in the region.
"This is not a region frozen between 'traditional' and 'modern.' It is alive, plural, and constantly reinventing what belonging means."
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