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International audience ; Persian Gulf economies rely on foreign workers, who make up 85 % of the total population in Qatar. Among the latter, lowly migrants live in labour camps, a form of "constrained lodging" (Bernardot, 2007) corresponding to a spatial management of migrants based on strong social and ethnic stereotypes. Migrants, most of them South Asians, thus live in the towns' suburbs designated as industrial areas where the camps are situated. These camps are a device at the heart of Qatari migration policy. In a constrained context, where confinement above all means an impossibility to move out of the industrial areas, men manage to make home in the dormitory where ten to twelve of them live together. They "make do with" institutional constraints by using tactics and do-it-yourself solutions the weak have at their disposal (de Certeau, 1990). Migrants appropriate dormitories, the main living spaces away from work, in subtle though indispensable ways. These appropriations are like micro resistances to lack of concern about migrants'well-being and living conditions on the part of the authorities. However, the retreat into the dormitory also conveniently meets the wishes of the Qatar State to quash all political aspirations of migrants considered only as a temporary imported workforce. ; Le fonctionnement des économies des pays du Golfe repose sur le travail des étrangers, qui forment 85 % de la population au Qatar. Parmi ceux-ci, une grande partie des migrants peu payés sont logés dans des camps de travailleurs (labour camp), une forme de « logement contraint » (Bernardot, 2007) correspondant à une gestion spatiale de la main-d'œuvre basée sur des stéréotypes ethniques et sociaux. Les migrants, principalement sud-asiatiques, sont ainsi logés à la périphérie des villes, dans les zones industrielles où sont situés les camps de travailleurs, un dispositif au cœur de la politique migratoire. Dans un contexte contraint, où l'enfermement signifie surtout une impossibilité de se mouvoir hors des zones ...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the expression 'Nepalese diaspora' has increasingly been used by the Nepalese government, expatriates, reporters and intellectuals. The Nepalese diaspora, or those who speak on behalf of it, occupies a growing amount of Nepalese public space, especially on the Internet. Taking into account the performativity of the term 'diaspora', the author tries to understand how Nepalese diasporic websites are the sign and conditions of an 'incipient diaspora'. Analysis of authoritative websites and links between different websites helps understand the structure of the Nepalese diaspora and the issues at stake. The Internet is hardly egalitarian and reflects the tensions in Nepalese society. However, links between websites are real. Non-Resident Nepalis' Association websites are central to the associative Web, and cultural association websites are in the majority. The 'etic' study of 'emic' discourses of self-presentation by the diaspora shows that, through their public and performative dimensions, Nepalese diasporic websites are at the very heart of the process of constructing the Nepalese diaspora.

This article examines the place that Nepalese immigrant workers occupy in Qatar, a country where migrants' social and spatial positions are determined by their nationality and qualifications. The article uses visual images, mainly photographs, to illustrate the divided nature of society in Qatar. While trying to adopt the migrants' point of view, the author spent time both in the place where they live, that is the labor camps, and in central Doha where migrants spend their free time. Thus, except for the work place, pictures were taken both in private and public spaces to outline migrants' living spaces. They illustrate the strong constraints migrants have to face in everyday life. For the author himself, pictures are a means of taking a closer look at these places, once back from a field trip. By playing with different scales, zooming from the labor camp setting to the details of how rooms are arranged, pictures enable us to grasp the multiple facets of segregation and the way Nepalese migrant workers draw on their own resources to make foreign places their own. However, the adjustments made to these living spaces continue to reflect their lowly position in a highly segmented society.