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Chapter 1: Migration to the Middle East: Issues and Prospects -- Chapter 2: Demographic Dividend in the Middle East: An Empirical Assessment -- Chapter 3: Egyptian Labour Migration in the Arab Middle East -- Chapter 4: Vagaries in the Management of Migrant Domestic Workers from the Philippines:...
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« This book provides new insights and research studies on how developing countries come to terms with the nationalisation policies of Gulf economies that provide employment for their nationals. Focusing on regions and countries that have traditionally been overlooked, it includes studies on...
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In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to … the Bahrain and the sponsorship system, the kafala, under which they labor and upon which they depend for continued … the Gulf States -- 2. Pearls, Oil, and the British Empire: A Short History of Bahrain -- 3. Foreign Labor in Peril: The …
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The GCC countries are among the top destinations for foreign workers from neighboring Arab and Asian countries. The Gulf region is also the top remitter in the world. This chapter discusses the reasons that placed the GCC countries at the heart of the migration debate. To better understand the...
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After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...
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