India's Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East Policies, Politics
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
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India’s Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East
S. Irudaya Rajan • Prem Saxena Editors
India’s Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East Policies, Politics and Challenges
Editors S. Irudaya Rajan Centre for Development Studies Ulloor Medical College Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Prem Saxena Department of Population Studies American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Migration has been one of the oldest survival strategies in human civilization. It is invariably a long-term phenomenon. The case of international migration is quite different and unique. In particular, unskilled and semi- skilled workers from Asia largely move to Middle Eastern countries and also to some South East Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia. Initially, oil boom in the Gulf region attracted cheap male blue-collar workers, and later females migrated to this region to work as domestic workers and nurses in hospitals. But the large proportion of migrants in Middle Eastern countries are dominated by unskilled and semi-skilled workers from the Asian region. The main source countries in Asia are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, also the Philippines and Indonesia send significant number of female domestic workers to this region as compared with other Asian countries
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