Browsing Social & Economic Survey Research Institute by Author "Ewers, Michael C."
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Attracting and retaining expatriates in Qatar during an era of uncertainty: Would you stay or would you go?
Ewers, Michael C; Shockley, Bethany ( Wiley , 2017 , Article)How do foreign workers navigate competing pressures when deciding to remain in a place or leave for a new destination? Here, we explore migration decision‐making across a diverse set of migrant nationalities using an ... -
Becoming Linked In: Leveraging Professional Networks for Elite Surveys and Interviews
Dicce, Ryan P.; Ewers, Michael C. ( Wiley-Blackwell , 2019 , Article)Finding and recruiting survey and interview participants remains an important and time-consuming process for mixed methods researchers. For those operating in cross-cultural contexts, these barriers are particularly salient ... -
Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Ewers, Michael C.; Dicce, Ryan ( 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.
Ewers, Michael c.; Dicce, Ryan ( 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 ... -
High-skilled migration and the attractiveness of cities.
Ewers, Michael C.; Dicce, Ryan; Czaika, Mathias ( Oxford University Press , 2018 , Book chapter)Book Description: Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration ... -
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Ewers, Michael C.; Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien Trung; Bader, Lina ( 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 ... -
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 ...