DescriptionPortraitures of diasporic communities in the UAE represent South Asians almost exclusively as migrant laborers, overlooking an underexplored segment of the immigrant narrative. Planes challenges this one-dimensional understanding and seeks to explore the multitudes of experiences that exist on the spectrum and are directed by race, nationality, class, and gender. This project, which is comprised of essays, lists, and fragmented narratives explores space and place, collective and displaced identity through language, memoir, and interviews. It aims to pinpoint and reveal the often invisible codes, divisions, and hierarchies dominant in the capital city, Abu Dhabi. And it asks us to revisit and reimagine the human cartography of the city—and by extension, of the Gulf.