Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East: Kin Mutual Aid Associations in Jordan and Lebanon

by Anne Marie Baylouny

Book Overview

Anne Marie Baylouny examines previously undocumented effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. As the state's safety network has been withdrawn, kin-based mutual aid associations--organized around new definitions of kinship and identity and geared to contemporary market and labor needs--have taken its place. Such organizations provide a measure of social and economic security for their members, and have come to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253221951
• ISBN13: 9780253221957
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"