Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Global City of Dubai

Abstract

This article attempts to examine the concept and practice of the citizenship the UAE and particularly in the global city of Dubai. It also provides a precise comparison between modern conception of citizenship and citizenship in Arab Gulf countries. There is a general perception that globalization promotes democracy. However, in the case of Dubai, despite being a global city, one of the richest economy and sign of material progress, giving abundant economic privileges to its citizens, but citizens of the country are denied their political and civil rights. The precarious conditions of the foreign working, denial of their basic human rights put the questions on the process of globalization. These all factors combining together construct many paradoxes and contradictions. The modernity and tradition seems going together.    

Keywords: citizenship

This article attempts to examine the concept and practice of the citizenship the UAE and particularly in the global city of Dubai. It also provides a precise comparison between modern conception of citizenship and citizenship in Arab Gulf countries. There is a general perception that globalization promotes democracy. However, in the case of Dubai, despite being a global city, one of the richest economy and sign of material progress, giving abundant economic privileges to its citizens, but citizens of the country are denied their political and civil rights. The precarious conditions of the foreign working, denial of their basic human rights put the questions on the process of globalization. These all factors combining together construct many paradoxes and contradictions. The modernity and tradition seems going together.