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Navigating Murky Waters: Iranian-Gulf Relations a Year into Raisi's Presidency
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2023 , Article)
This paper examines the first year of Ebrahim Raisi's presidency and focuses on Iran's relations with neighboring Gulf states. The paper analyzes how President Raisi was able to navigate his foreign policies amidst numerous ...
Kuwait's Mediation in the Gulf Crisis: Dynamics of Kuwait's Foreign Policy Approaches
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Springer
, 2023 , Book chapter)
This study examines Kuwaiti mediation in the 2017 Gulf crisis from the perspective of the disputants-mainly Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar-and the mediator-Kuwait. While using qualitative research method ...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Fragility, Fragmentation, and Crisis
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Common Ground Research Networks
, 2023 , Article)
The paper examines the fragility, fragmentation, and crisis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by dissecting the region into three subregions-Maghreb, Mashreq, and the GCC-and elaborating on their complex contours, ...
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 ...
Disgraceful return: Gulf migration and shifting national narratives amid COVID-19
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
Several Asian countries that encourage international migration of labour call their emigrants ‘national heroes and heroines’ because of their contributions to foreign currency reserves and subsequent national development. ...
The 2017 Gulf Crisis and Changes in Qatar's Economic Landscape
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Springer
, 2023 , Book chapter)
This chapter analyzes the major transformations that Qatar's economy went through during the 2017 Gulf crisis. This chapter argues that the Gulf crisis has proved to be a "blessing in disguise." Qatar confronted unprecedented ...
Tujjar in the Gulf: Changes in Political Influence
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Springer
, 2023 , Book chapter)
Since the oil boom in the 1970s, the Gulf region has witnessed tremendous growth. Today, the GCC countries have an impressive collective 85% urbanization. This paper argues that merchant-ruler relations and the transnational ...
Gulf Studies: The Imperatives of Area Studies in the Gulf Region
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MDPI
, 2023 , Article)
Area Studies is in crisis, but research on Area Studies also demonstrates the relevance of and need for Area Studies through case studies in different world regions. However, there is a dearth of research on the imperatives ...
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 ...
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 ...