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Qatar World Cup 2022: Awareness of the event and its impact on destination and country character perceptions in the US tourism market
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2016 , Article)
This study examined how awareness levels of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar changed perceptions of Qatar's destination image, country character, and neighboring destinations' images. Data were collected through Amazon ...
Conducting a state-of-the-art mental health survey in a traditional setting: Challenges and lessons from piloting the World Mental Health Survey in Qatar
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: A small country in the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar experienced rapid economic growth in the last 3 decades accompanied by major socio-demographic shifts towards a younger and more highly educated population. To ...
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has strongly reaffirmed the critical importance of labor migration to the global economy, even as it has raised questions about the temporary migration programs responsible for much of this ...
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
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Springer Netherlands
, 2018 , Article)
Few studies have examined the role of religiosity and social capital on civic engagement in the context of a Muslim country. In this paper, we explore the impact of religiosity and social capital on charitable donations ...
Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the GCC
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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 ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Springer Singapore
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Though transnational labour 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 ...
A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Understanding the Causes of Psychological Distress during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Qatar
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Science Research Society
, 2021 , Article)
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to determine how blended learning, teleworking challenges, knowledge, strategic responses in crisis situations, perceived seriousness, peoples' adherence to Covid-19 preventative ...
Fertility Transitions in Qatar: The Dynamics between Women's Socioeconomic Status and Fertility
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Radiance Research Academy
, 2021 , Article)
Introduction: Qatar society has undergone major socio-economic transformations that have eventually promoted female access to education and career opportunities, which has, in turn, impacted fertility preferences. Objective: ...
Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
This article introduces the concept of bargaining power as a framework for understanding varieties of migration experience and behavior. We argue that migration and settlement experiences vary according to a migrant's ...
A Path Analytic Investigation of Teleworking Challenges During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Qatar
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Academia
, 2021 , Article)
This academic essay is about ideas dropped from the findings of a previously published article entitled "A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Understanding the Causes of Psycho- logical Distress during the Covid-19 ...