Abdoulaye Diop
Biographic Data
| ID | 160294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdoulaye Diop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdoulaye |
| FAMILY NAME | Diop |
| SIGNATURE | DIOP A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Qatar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7905-7138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The pillars of protection: Wage security, legal awareness, and migrant rights in a reforming Qatar
How and to what degree have the foundational drivers of migrant worker welfare changed? Our paper addresses this question through a cross-sectional comparative analysis of two unique datasets of migrant workers in Qatar: a historical benchmark (2017–2021) and a new post-reform survey (2024). The comparison relies on two independent cross-sections of different workers as opposed to longitudinal tracking of the same individuals. We use survey-weigh…
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention timing on clinical malaria incidence dynamics in the Kedougou region, Senegal
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine is recommended by the World Health Organization since 2012 for clinical malaria prevention in children in the Sahelian region of Africa. In Senegal, SMC implementation began in 2013 and is given to children under 10 years old. This study aimed to describe clinical malaria incidence in the general population during routine SMC implementation and to analyse how SM…
Attitudes of Qatari Nationals Toward Expatriates
Since December 2010, when Qatar won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, scholars’ interests have mainly focused on the treatment of migrant workers whose skills and expertise are essential for Qatar's development. However, scholars also need to study nationals’ perspectives vis-à-vis expatriate workers and their impact on Qatar's social and economic landscape. In 2020, the Social and Economic Survey Institute partially replicated a 2012 surv…
Beyond vulnerability: Contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
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 conditions of the low-wage migrant workers responsible for building the country’s social and economic infrastructure. These critiques, however, either emphasize individual migrant experiences of mistreatment or the kafala migration…
Labour reforms in Qatar: Continuity and change in perceptions and attitudes among citizens and migrant workers
Hosting the FIFA World Cup was a pivotal moment for Qatar and the broader Arab region, attracting attention, tourism, and economic benefits. However, it also intensified global scrutiny of Qatar's labor laws that govern the lives of migrant workers. In response, Qatar implemented significant labor reforms to address criticisms and enhance the business environment. Despite these efforts, ongoing evaluation is crucial for assessing reforms' effecti…
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19
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 migration. In the Arab Gulf states – home to some of the world’s highest proportions of migrants – the pandemic has highlighted critical structural weaknesses in the region’s kafāla migration regimes. Drawing on two nationally rep…
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals
This study examines citizens’ sense of neighbourhood belonging in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, focusing on the State of Qatar. While much research about this issue has been conducted in developed countries, little is known about how citizens’ ‘stock’ of social capital, religiosity and civic engagement affect their sense of belonging to their neighbourhood within GCC countries. In the present study, we address this question by ana…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Labor Camp Surveys in GCC Countries: Group Quarter Subsampling
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional cooperation of six Middle Eastern countries-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. A common feature of these countries is the existence of many group quarters, usually called labor camps, a term used to refer to housing accommodations for unskilled migrants where nonrelated people live together. The camp size ranges from a few people to a few thousand people from many d…
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
Social Capital and Citizens’ Attitudes towards Migrant Workers
This study examines Qatari citizens’ attitudes toward migrant workers. While much research has been conducted on citizens’ attitudes toward the abolition, tightening, or loosening of the Kafāla system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries with regard to migrant workers’ residency rights, and on their contribution to the economic development of these countries, little is known about how citizens’ religiosity and social engagement impact …
Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar
Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar
Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political and social costs, the system remains entrenched with little prospect for reform. The following paper takes up this puzzle, asking the simple question, why has vital reform been so difficult to achieve? In answering this question, w…
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require modification for local contexts, and one common—but costly—adaptation is to use teams of male and female interviewers for face-to-face surveys. We address the trade-off between costs and quality by testing a sampling method based on gend…
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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 sampling strategies. This paper presents the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar. The data describe the basic characteristics of the low-income migrant population in Qatar, the process by w…
Civic Life and Democratic Citizenship in Qatar Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using previously unavailable data from the inaugural Qatar World Values Survey administered in December 2010, we explore the political orientations of ordinary Qatari citizens. Specifically, we extend several recent empirical analyses th…
Attitudes Towards Migrant Workers in the GCC: Evidence from Qatar
With the majority of Qatar’s total population made up of foreigners (high-skilled and low-skilled migrant workers), Qatari nationals may feel that there are significant challenges for their society; despite the absence of employment competition, this may lead many Qataris to see problems as well as benefits in the presence of these migrant workers in their country. Using a split-sample technique, Qataris’ attitudes towards these foreigners were a…
Within-Household Sampling Conditioning on Household Size
We review existing methods for sampling an adult from a household and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these methods with respect to issues relevant for sampling in the Middle East and developing countries. We then develop a new, flexible within-household sampling scheme that takes full advantage of the fact that household size must be obtained to produce unbiased estimates. The proposed method randomly selects an adult conditional on th…
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
Is Per-Capita Growth in Africa Hampered by Poor Governance and Weak Institutions? Examining the Case of the Ecowas Countries
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
Civic Life and Democratic Citizenship in Qatar Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using previously unavailable data from the inaugural Qatar World Values Survey administered in December 2010, we explore the political orientations of ordinary Qatari citizens. Specifically, we extend several recent empirical analyses th…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require modification for local contexts, and one common—but costly—adaptation is to use teams of male and female interviewers for face-to-face surveys. We address the trade-off between costs and quality by testing a sampling method based on gend…
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Social Capital and Citizens’ Attitudes towards Migrant Workers
This study examines Qatari citizens’ attitudes toward migrant workers. While much research has been conducted on citizens’ attitudes toward the abolition, tightening, or loosening of the Kafāla system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries with regard to migrant workers’ residency rights, and on their contribution to the economic development of these countries, little is known about how citizens’ religiosity and social engagement impact …
Within-Household Sampling Conditioning on Household Size
We review existing methods for sampling an adult from a household and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these methods with respect to issues relevant for sampling in the Middle East and developing countries. We then develop a new, flexible within-household sampling scheme that takes full advantage of the fact that household size must be obtained to produce unbiased estimates. The proposed method randomly selects an adult conditional on th…
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals
This study examines citizens’ sense of neighbourhood belonging in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, focusing on the State of Qatar. While much research about this issue has been conducted in developed countries, little is known about how citizens’ ‘stock’ of social capital, religiosity and civic engagement affect their sense of belonging to their neighbourhood within GCC countries. In the present study, we address this question by ana…
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
Beyond vulnerability: Contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
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 conditions of the low-wage migrant workers responsible for building the country’s social and economic infrastructure. These critiques, however, either emphasize individual migrant experiences of mistreatment or the kafala migration…
Labor Camp Surveys in GCC Countries: Group Quarter Subsampling
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional cooperation of six Middle Eastern countries-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. A common feature of these countries is the existence of many group quarters, usually called labor camps, a term used to refer to housing accommodations for unskilled migrants where nonrelated people live together. The camp size ranges from a few people to a few thousand people from many d…
Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar
Is Per-Capita Growth in Africa Hampered by Poor Governance and Weak Institutions? Examining the Case of the Ecowas Countries
Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame
Attitudes Towards Migrant Workers in the GCC: Evidence from Qatar
With the majority of Qatar’s total population made up of foreigners (high-skilled and low-skilled migrant workers), Qatari nationals may feel that there are significant challenges for their society; despite the absence of employment competition, this may lead many Qataris to see problems as well as benefits in the presence of these migrant workers in their country. Using a split-sample technique, Qataris’ attitudes towards these foreigners were a…
Within-Household Sampling Conditioning on Household Size
We review existing methods for sampling an adult from a household and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these methods with respect to issues relevant for sampling in the Middle East and developing countries. We then develop a new, flexible within-household sampling scheme that takes full advantage of the fact that household size must be obtained to produce unbiased estimates. The proposed method randomly selects an adult conditional on th…
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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 sampling strategies. This paper presents the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar. The data describe the basic characteristics of the low-income migrant population in Qatar, the process by w…
Civic Life and Democratic Citizenship in Qatar Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using previously unavailable data from the inaugural Qatar World Values Survey administered in December 2010, we explore the political orientations of ordinary Qatari citizens. Specifically, we extend several recent empirical analyses th…
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require modification for local contexts, and one common—but costly—adaptation is to use teams of male and female interviewers for face-to-face surveys. We address the trade-off between costs and quality by testing a sampling method based on gend…
Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar
Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political and social costs, the system remains entrenched with little prospect for reform. The following paper takes up this puzzle, asking the simple question, why has vital reform been so difficult to achieve? In answering this question, w…
Social Capital and Citizens’ Attitudes towards Migrant Workers
This study examines Qatari citizens’ attitudes toward migrant workers. While much research has been conducted on citizens’ attitudes toward the abolition, tightening, or loosening of the Kafāla system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries with regard to migrant workers’ residency rights, and on their contribution to the economic development of these countries, little is known about how citizens’ religiosity and social engagement impact …
Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar
Donating Time or Money? The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Labor Camp Surveys in GCC Countries: Group Quarter Subsampling
The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional cooperation of six Middle Eastern countries-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. A common feature of these countries is the existence of many group quarters, usually called labor camps, a term used to refer to housing accommodations for unskilled migrants where nonrelated people live together. The camp size ranges from a few people to a few thousand people from many d…
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals
This study examines citizens’ sense of neighbourhood belonging in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, focusing on the State of Qatar. While much research about this issue has been conducted in developed countries, little is known about how citizens’ ‘stock’ of social capital, religiosity and civic engagement affect their sense of belonging to their neighbourhood within GCC countries. In the present study, we address this question by ana…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Beyond vulnerability: Contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
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 conditions of the low-wage migrant workers responsible for building the country’s social and economic infrastructure. These critiques, however, either emphasize individual migrant experiences of mistreatment or the kafala migration…
Labour reforms in Qatar: Continuity and change in perceptions and attitudes among citizens and migrant workers
Hosting the FIFA World Cup was a pivotal moment for Qatar and the broader Arab region, attracting attention, tourism, and economic benefits. However, it also intensified global scrutiny of Qatar's labor laws that govern the lives of migrant workers. In response, Qatar implemented significant labor reforms to address criticisms and enhance the business environment. Despite these efforts, ongoing evaluation is crucial for assessing reforms' effecti…
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19
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 migration. In the Arab Gulf states – home to some of the world’s highest proportions of migrants – the pandemic has highlighted critical structural weaknesses in the region’s kafāla migration regimes. Drawing on two nationally rep…
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention timing on clinical malaria incidence dynamics in the Kedougou region, Senegal
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine is recommended by the World Health Organization since 2012 for clinical malaria prevention in children in the Sahelian region of Africa. In Senegal, SMC implementation began in 2013 and is given to children under 10 years old. This study aimed to describe clinical malaria incidence in the general population during routine SMC implementation and to analyse how SM…
Attitudes of Qatari Nationals Toward Expatriates
Since December 2010, when Qatar won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, scholars’ interests have mainly focused on the treatment of migrant workers whose skills and expertise are essential for Qatar's development. However, scholars also need to study nationals’ perspectives vis-à-vis expatriate workers and their impact on Qatar's social and economic landscape. In 2020, the Social and Economic Survey Institute partially replicated a 2012 surv…
The pillars of protection: Wage security, legal awareness, and migrant rights in a reforming Qatar
How and to what degree have the foundational drivers of migrant worker welfare changed? Our paper addresses this question through a cross-sectional comparative analysis of two unique datasets of migrant workers in Qatar: a historical benchmark (2017–2021) and a new post-reform survey (2024). The comparison relies on two independent cross-sections of different workers as opposed to longitudinal tracking of the same individuals. We use survey-weigh…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Migrant workers (7 works)