South Asian Migration in the Gulf Causes and Consequences
This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE
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Edited by Mehdi Chowdhury S. Irudaya Rajan
South Asian Migration in the Gulf
Mehdi Chowdhury S. Irudaya Rajan Editors
South Asian Migration in the Gulf Causes and Consequences
Editors Mehdi Chowdhury Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Business School Bournemouth University Bournemouth, UK
S. Irudaya Rajan Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 Mehdi Chowdhury and S. Irudaya Rajan 2 Asian Migration to the Gulf States in the Twenty-first Century 7 Françoise De Bel-Air 3 Demography of the Gulf Region 35 S. Irudaya Rajan 4 Is the Kafala Tradition to Blame for the Exploitative Work Conditions in the Arab-Gulf Countries? 61 Radhika Kanchana 5 South Asian Migration in the Gulf: Topics for Economic Investigations 81 Mehdi Chowdhury 6 Labor Markets in the Gulf and the South Asian Migration 101 Emilie J. Rutledge v
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7 Gender Issues, Changing Roles, and Migration: A Review of the Gulf Countries 123 Nasra M. Shah, Lubna Al-Kazi, and Abrar Husain 8 Outward Remittances from the Gulf 143 Ismail H. Genc and George Naufal 9 South Asian Migrants and the Construction Sector of the Gulf 165 Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz, Abdul Lateef Olanrewaju, and Abdullahi Umar Ahmed 10 Geopolitics of the Middl
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