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AuthorMenon, Lakshmi Venugopal
Available date2023-11-21T05:49:55Z
Publication Date2023
Publication NameGCC Hydrocarbon Economies and COVID: Old Trends, New Realities
ResourceScopus
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5462-7_7
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/49512
AbstractIn the early 1970s, oil prices skyrocketed and the resource-rich Gulf states pursued infrastructural development. This created a massive labor demand in the construction, infrastructure, and oil sectors. Foreign labor facilitated and helped materialize development in an arguably short duration of unparalleled precedence. Thus, by the twenty-first century, the volume of migrant workers significantly surpassed those of the local employees in these countries. In 1999, the foreign workers in the Gulf states totalled 7.1 million; 70% of their total workforce. Migration has had a huge impact on the Gulf countries. Foreign labor was a central factor to the development strategies of the Gulf nations. Hence, most existing studies and research on immigrants adopt an economic or a political approach concentrating on resource-sharing, national economies, development, and remittances.
Languageen
PublisherSpringer Nature
SubjectEconomic Diversification
OPEC
COVID
Gulf Energy Security
Low-carbon Economy
Shale Revolution
Energy Transition
Migration
Economic Recovery
TitleGulf's Migrant Workers Amidst Covid-19 and Workforce Nationalization: A Focus on Qatar's Social Protection Systems
TypeBook chapter
Pagination141-172
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