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No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees
(
The Council on Foreign Relations
, 2015 , Article)
A common reaction to the ongoing migrant crisis has been to blame Europe: how can the wealthy nations of western Europe allow such a tragedy? More recently, however, media and popular scrutiny have turned back toward the ...
Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2016 , Article)
This paper studies the processes through which skilled international
workers are differentially attracted to and incorporated in the rapidly
globalising cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, thereby reproducing the
migrant ...
Expatriate mobility, firm recruitment and local context: Skilled international migration to the rapidly globalizing city of Dubai.
(
Routledge
, 2017 , Book chapter)
About the Book
In today’s global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled workers are an asset to companies, knowledge institutions, cities, and regions as they ...
Emerging Transnational Identities: Indian Skilled Migration in the UAE
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
India has been the source of the largest annual outflows to the GCC countries. The increasing significance of GCC countries as a destination for migrant workers is illustrated by the change in total migrant stock in those ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor 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 ...
The Gulf as a Global Contact Zone: Chronotopic identities and (linguistic) landscapes
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Migration, transformation, and urbanization emerge as the key- factors that brought changes in the Gulf area. Social change as changes in social interaction involve differently different segments of population, according ...
Migration and Social Change in the Gulf: A Comparative Study in the Six Gulf States
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Migration and flow of people across the world is rapidly growing today. It was estimated that there were about 272 million migrants globally in 2019 which roughly constitutes of 3.2% of the world population. The Gulf ...
Working and Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in the GCC: India Migration Report 2016: Gulf Migration
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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;
• ...
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
(
Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Despite significant media attention and criticism, we know very little about the living and working conditions of low-income migrants in the Arab Gulf states, how migrants themselves view these conditions, or what factors ...
Unpacking the complexity of the PET drink bottles value chain: A chemicals perspective
(
Elsevier
, 2022 , Article Review)
Chemicals can migrate from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) drink bottles to their content and recycling processes may concentrate or introduce new chemicals to the PET value chain. Therefore, even though recycling PET ...