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迪拜和海湾地区其他主要城市的经济和社会不平等是众所周知的。学术和媒体报道经常将酋长们的奢侈生活与建筑工人的恶劣条件进行对比。因此,关注的焦点一直是阿拉伯当地精英和亚洲移民。有趣的是,尽管英国作为一个帝国力量在历史上长期存在,但享有特权的西方人很少出现在对海湾社会的描述中。他们被称为外籍人士、客人或游客,通常被视为社会秩序的局外人,甚至连他们自己都是如此。然而,无论是作为公司的管理者还是女佣的雇主,欧洲人和北美人也对普遍存在的不公正做出了贡献,amsamlie Le Renard在她的书《西方特权》(Western Privilege)中指出。勒勒纳尔承认,幸运的西方人是一个“边界模糊、不明确的群体”(第69页)。并非所有来自欧洲的人都在其中。例如,书中引用的一位房东拒绝把房子租给罗马尼亚和俄罗斯的女人,怀疑她们卖淫。阿拉伯联合酋长国的幸运外国人是那些持有“霸权国家”护照的人(第17页)。虽然作者没有提供这些国家的全面清单,但她认为澳大利亚、奥地利、比利时、加拿大、德国、意大利、挪威、瑞士、联合王国和美国都属于这些国家。然而,她调查的主要西方国家是法国。这位社会学家主要采访了来自法语社区和与之相关的人。当时,这本书首先以法语出版(书名为Le privilires occidental: Travail, intimit et hisamrarchies postcoloniales Dubaï)。持法国护照的人只占阿联酋人口的一小部分:2015年,阿联酋900万人中有2.5万人持有法国护照。然而,他们中的许多人在就业市场上享有显著的结构性优势。作为遗产
AMÉLIE LE RENARD. Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 256. $26.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503629233.
Dubai and other major cities in the Gulf region are widely known for their economic and social inequalities. Academic and media accounts have often contrasted the luxuries of the sheikhs with the poor conditions of construction workers. The focus has therefore been on Arab local elites and Asian migrants. Interestingly, despite the long historical presence of Britain as an imperial power, privileged Westerners seldom appear in accounts of Gulf societies. Described as expatriates, guests, or tourists, they are commonly seen – even by themselves – as external to the social order. Yet, whether as managers of companies or as employers of maids, Europeans and North Americans have also contributed to widespread injustice, argues Amélie Le Renard in her book, Western Privilege. The fortunate Westerners are a “group with vague, ill-defined borders” (p. 69), acknowledges Le Renard. Not all people from Europe are among them. One landlord who is quoted in the book refused to rent to Romanian and Russian women, for instance, suspecting them of prostitution. The lucky foreigners in the United Arab Emirates are those with passports of “hegemonic countries” (p. 17). While the author does not provide a comprehensive list of such states, she considers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as among them. However, the main Western country in her investigations is France. The sociologist primarily interviewed people from the francophone community and those connected to it. Appropriately then, the book first appeared in French (under the title Le privilège occidental: Travail, intimité et hiérarchies postcoloniales à Dubaï). French passport holders only make up a tiny fraction of the population of the United Arab Emirates: 25,000 out of 9 million in 2015. However, many of them enjoyed significant structural advantages in the job market. As a legacy