Dubai's taxi-ng life: Pakistani cab drivers & perceptions of discrimination from passengers.
The study is the first of its kind to be conducted in Dubai. It details racial and class discrimination experiences perceived by Pakistani cabbies from passengers. Since Dubai is a cosmopolitan city, the people it hosts and hence passengers in taxis belong to a plethora of distinct nationalities. Pr...
| Published in: | Social Identities Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 203 - 219 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=143828968&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 143828968 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13504630 SEN jtl: Social Identities issn: 13504630 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2020 vid: 26 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 143828968 10.1080/13504630.2019.1671186 ppf: 203 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Dubai's taxi-ng life: Pakistani cab drivers & perceptions of discrimination from passengers. aug: au: Ishfaq, Sarmad affil: University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates su: Race discrimination Classism Social classes Minorities Taxicab drivers sug: subj: Race discrimination Classism Social classes Minorities Taxi Service Taxicab drivers keyword: class discrimination Dubai Pakistan race taxi drivers class discrimination Dubai Pakistan race taxi drivers ab: The study is the first of its kind to be conducted in Dubai. It details racial and class discrimination experiences perceived by Pakistani cabbies from passengers. Since Dubai is a cosmopolitan city, the people it hosts and hence passengers in taxis belong to a plethora of distinct nationalities. Previous studies akin to this topic reveal that South Asian and other minority drivers in Western cosmopolitan cities such as Toronto and New York face voluminous instances of race and class-based discrimination – sometimes morphing into physical assaults. After conducting qualitative interviews of 19 Pakistani taxi drivers, it was revealed that Dubai diverges from this unsettling trend experienced in the West. Analyzing the interviews led to the creation of three broad categories, which elucidated that racial discrimination faced by the drivers was little to none, while class discrimination was present but only to a limited degree. Most drivers asserted that a high percentage of their passengers are well mannered and that the main issues they face stem from some permutation of the RTA (Road & Transportation Authority), taxi companies, and police. This latter revelation displays contours of apparent systemic discrimination and should be studied formally. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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