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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Revisiting the economic theory of crime A state-level analysis in India
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Cogent OA
, 2023 , Article)
The economic theory of crime tends to suggest that deterrence variables have a significant impact on crime rates in a society. From an economic perspective, criminals are rational economic agents who weigh the likelihood ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Change and Transformation in the Gulf Region
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Springer
, 2023 , Book chapter)
Social change is an integral part of human social behavior and a phenomenon that is continuously happening around us. We constantly challenge existing social structures and institutions and transform them by contesting the ...