Hanieh, Adam, AlShehabi, Omar and Khalaf, Abdulhadi, eds. (2014) Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf. London: Pluto Press.
Abstract
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created the prodigious and extraordinary development boom across the region, and neighbouring countries are almost fully dependent on the labour markets of the Gulf to employ their working populations. For these reasons, the Gulf takes a central place in contemporary debates around migration and labour in the global economy. This book attempts to bring together and explore these issues.
| Item Type: | Edited Book or Journal Volume |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies |
| ISBN: | 9780745335209 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p1j8 |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2015 09:54 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/19395 |
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