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Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the GCC

Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien Trung; Ewers, Michael C. ( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)

Since Qatar was awarded the hosting of the 2022 World Cup, a great deal of media attention has focused on the conditions of the foreign workers responsible for creating and maintaining the infrastructure of the modern Gulf ...

A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar

Gardner, Andrew; Pessoa, Silvia; Diop, Abdoulaye; Al-Ghanim, Kaltham; Le Trung, Kien; ... more authors ... less authors ( Springer Singapore , 2019 , Book chapter)

Though transnational labour migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ...

Migration Policies across the GCC: Challenges in Reforming the Kafala

Diop, Abdoulaye; Johnston, Trevor; Le, Kien Trung ( Gulf Research Center Cambridge , 2018 , Book chapter)

Much of the debate over immigration policy in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) revolves around the kafala, or sponsorship system. In ...

Working and Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in the GCC: India Migration Report 2016: Gulf Migration

Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien T.; Ewers, Michael; Irudaya Rajan., S ( Routledge , 2016 , Book chapter)

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: • looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both in India and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; • ...