UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora

[...]though Indians are legally temporary 'guests,' the Indian community has existed in Dubai for over a century and its members are into their second, third, and in some cases, even fourth generation. The most fundamental feature of modern citizenship is that it sets the conditions for political inclusion. [...]while much of the book's discussion revolves around citizenship as civic participation, its larger and more important (if at times less-developed) contribution is in showing that "foreign residents" are integral to the emergence and consolidation of modern citizenship regimes; the "impossible" elements solidify the parameters of a polity and the distributions of power within it.