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Migrant labor in the Persian Gulf

Author: Mehran Kamrava; Zahra Babar
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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In some Persian Gulf countries, expatriate workers make up as much as eighty-five to ninety percent of the population. Unsurprisingly, these states spend vast amounts of political energy managing their migrant laborers and the social, cultural, and economic changes they bring. Yet, despite this pervasive and far-reaching phenomenon, no comprehensive and easily accessible study of labor migration in the Persian Gulf  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mehran Kamrava; Zahra Babar
ISBN: 9780231703642 0231703643
OCLC Number: 775271616
Notes: "Published in collaboration with Georgetown University's Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar."
Description: xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: Situating migrant labor in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar --
Beyond labor : foreign residents in the Persian Gulf states / Attiya Ahmad --
Why do they keep coming? : labor migrants in the Gulf states / Andrew Gardner --
Socio-spatial boundaries in Abu Dhabi / Jane Bristol Rhys --
Informality and its discontents : mapping migrant worker trajectories into Dubai's informal economy / Pardis Mahdavi --
Migration, networks, and connectedness across the Indian Ocean / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella --
India-Gulf migration : corruption and capacity in regulating recruitment agencies / Mary Breeding --
Nepali migrants to the Gulf cooperation council countries : values, behaviors, and plans / Nathalie E. Williams, Arland Thornton, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Linda C. Young-DeMarco, and Mansoor Moaddel --
The legal regulation of migrant workers, politics, and identity in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates / David Mednicoff --
Protecting migrants' rights in the Gulf cooperation council / Susan F. Martin --
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Responsibility: Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar, editors.

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