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Migrant wives: dynamics of the empowerment process
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2018 , Article)
An increasing number of male migrants are taking part in intra- and inter-regional migration in Asia, leaving their wives behind at home. Their wives, whom we call emigrant wives, often adapt to new roles and responsibilities ...
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
As the global COVID-19 crisis unfolds, the Gulf countries faces an unprecedent challenge of containing the spread of the virus among the non-national residents. Since migrants in Gulf countries live primarily in labour ...
Development of Bangladeshi immigrant entrepreneurship in Canada
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SAGE
, 2018 , Article)
Canada has developed a comprehensive immigration policy to accept different types of immigrants under its economic, family and humanitarian immigration categories. Canada invites over a quarter-million immigrants in a year. ...
The Covid-19 Pandemic: Vulnerability of Migrant workers in the GCC States
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Gulf Studies Center
, 2020 , Article)
The six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates) contain some of the highest numbers of migrants of any country in the world. Estimated at as many ...
The 2017 Gulf Crisis: An Introduction
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
On 5 June 2017, three member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain-as well as Egypt, issued a coordinated statement severing all relations with Qatar. This "Quartet" ...
The emergence of new immigrant organisations in the USA: collective engagement
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
Immigrant organisations tend to engage with immigrant communities within a host country and their country of origin through various transnational activities. This study explores the emergence of immigrant organisations ...
Gulf Studies: The Imperatives of Area Studies in the Gulf Region
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MDPI
, 2023 , Article)
Area Studies is in crisis, but research on Area Studies also demonstrates the relevance of and need for Area Studies through case studies in different world regions. However, there is a dearth of research on the imperatives ...
Migration, debt, and transnational livelihood: Indian labour diasporas in the GCC states amid the pandemic
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
South Asian labour migration to the GCC States is a debt-financed migration in which labour diasporas mobilise resources from a variety of sources, often at exorbitant interest rates, to cover migration costs. In the event ...
Entrepreneurship in ethnic enterprises: The making of new immigrant businesses in New York
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Research on ethnic entrepreneurship has generated substantial literature on the development of ethnic businesses among different immigrant groups in North America. Such studies tend to focus on the emergence of immigrant ...
Gender and the return migration process: Gulf returnees in Ghana
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
, 2023 , Article)
Labour migration in the context of South-South migration is generally conceived as a multidimensional process that comprises three distinct subprocesses: emigration, immigration, and return migration. There is growing ...