Through an ethnographic analysis of housing in the Arabian Gulf State of Qatar, this study explores the production and reproduction of social diversity through the articulation of social and spatial process. Since the discovery and commercial exploitation of Qatar's oil and natural gas resources, the city of Doha has been transformed from a relatively small and homogenous coastal town into a modern metropolis with a multinational population. As foreign workers have been recruited to live and work in Qatar, In this research, I combine the insights of earlier works in anthropology that explore the relationship between the built environment and social structure with theories of social production, to explore the ways in which the built environment is instrumental in the organization and maintenance of diversity in Qatar. In addition to providing ethnographic material illustrating how the house is linked to local and global hierarchies, flows of foreign capital and labor, bureaucratic structures, and local cultural values and practices