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Beyond vulnerability: contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
, 2023 , Article)
This paper examines migrant workers' subjective views of their rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar. Since the announcement of the World Cup, Qatar has been roundly criticized for the living and working ...
From the "Fareej" to Metropolis" Qatar Social Capital Sirvey II
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SESRI - Qatar University
, 2017 , Report)
Qatar faces a social and economic transformation today linked to its unique demographic
composition. Understanding social interactions within and across its diverse subgroups is
critical for understanding and managing ...
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 ...
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
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Elsevier
, 2011 , Article)
Abstract
The traditional Random Digit Dialing method (list-assisted RDD using a frame of landline phone numbers) is clearly under threat. The difficulty and costs of completing telephone surveys have increased due to ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor 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 ...
The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2017 , 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 ...
Migration Policies across the GCC: Challenges in Reforming the Kafala
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Gulf Research Center Cambridge
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Much of the debate over immigration policy in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) revolves around the kafala, or sponsorship system.
In ...