Bridging the Gulf
The Economic Significance of South Asian Migration to and from the Middle East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20053326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vaughan Robinson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 243-271 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315722306-12 |
| OpenAlex | W3040903240 |
| ISBN | 9781315722306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This chapter concerns recent labour migration from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to the six Arab states which together make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). It focusses on the economic significance of this movement for the sending societies, and the relative balance of advantages and disadvantages which accrues to those societies through emigration, expatriate remittances, and return migration. The Gulf has had a long-established economic and political link with the Indian subcontinent. Dubai, for example, has traditionally been an entrepot for trade between the Middle East and India, and Hindu merchants dominated both the gold and textile trades. Emigration provides temporary relief for the unemployed, remittances allow existing economic and regional structures to persist when they are threatened with change, and return migration may create a petite bourgeoisie of modest proportions
Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Computer security · East Asia · Geography · Middle East · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Geology · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |