{"product_id":"belonging-on-both-shores-mobility-migration-and-the-bordering-of-the-persian-gulf-hardback-9781503644250","title":"Belonging on Both Shores; Mobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf (Hardback) 9781503644250","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBelonging on Both Shores\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLindsey R. Stephenson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503644250\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e218 pages, 15 illustrations - 1 table, 6 halftones, 9 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The dhow, celebrated as an icon of Arab Gulf heritage, often drifts through a fog of nostalgia for the pre-oil past, unmoored from its deep ties to Iran and the Indian Ocean. Lindsey Stephenson's intrepid sleuthing through Iranian archives and private collections in Bahrain and Kuwait painstakingly reconstructs the forgotten stories of Iranian migrants, truly reassembling \u003ci\u003eboth shores\u003c\/i\u003e of the Gulf.\" —Michael Christopher Low, University of Utah\"A powerful and important rewriting of Persian Gulf history. Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates with detail and sophistication the ways the waters of the Persian Gulf transformed from a bridge to a barrier. The circuits and challenges of laborers and merchants, families and individuals come alive as they navigate a world increasingly divided along nationalist lines.\"  —Mandana Limbert, City University of New York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water became the primary foil for bordering spaces, restricting and regulating movement, and defining difference more generally. \u003ci\u003eBelonging on Both Shores\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of people's struggles to move freely between Iran and the Arab shores of the Gulf as the unregulated mobility that had characterized everyday life in the nineteenth century was increasingly policed in the twentieth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Using a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and English sources, Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates how state officials refined notions of territorial belonging against the movement of Iranians, the most visible mobile \"group\" in the Persian Gulf arena. Engaging migrant voices, Stephenson narrates how Iranians challenged a perceived requirement to belong to a single place and highlights the techniques these migrants employed to remain connected to both shores. Tracing the movement of Iranians across and around the Persian Gulf and investigating how the technologies of state and mobility transformed fluidity and people's understanding of movement, this book tells a new story of how the modern Gulf was formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Naming\u003cbr\u003e Map of the Western Indian Ocean\u003cbr\u003e Map of the Persian Gulf\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mapping Networks Across the Shores\u003cbr\u003e 2. Old Networks, New Spaces: Building the Modern Gulf\u003cbr\u003e 3. Territorialization and the Advent of Border Crossing\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nationalizing the Periphery\u003cbr\u003e 5. Between Modern and National Education\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Regrouping\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681236349208,"sku":"9781503644250","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/belonging-on-both-shores-mobility-migration-and-the-bordering-of-the-persian-gulf-hardback-9781503644250","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}