Asian Labor Migration
Pipeline To The Middle East
1st Edition
Published on 7. June 2019
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-0-367-01044-7 (ISBN)
Description
Labor migration from Asia to the oil-exporting countries in the Middle East has burgeoned in the last decade to a current level of over two million workers. Because foreign labor contracts have become a potent source of foreign exchange to the sending countries in Asia as well as a safety valve for high unemployment, the export of labor has become
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-01044-7 (9780367010447)
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Person
"Fred Arnold is a research associate at the East-West Population Institute and affiliate graduate faculty member in population studies at the University of Hawaii.
Nasra M. Shah is a consultant in the Department of Planning in the Ministry of Public Health, Kuwait.
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Nasra M. Shah is a consultant in the Department of Planning in the Ministry of Public Health, Kuwait.
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Content
Preface -- A Regional Perspective -- Asia's Labor Pipeline: An Overview -- Asian Labor Migration: An Empirical Assessment -- Determinants of Current Trends in Labor Migration and the Future Outlook -- Government Policies and Programs Regulating Labor Migration -- East and Southeast Asia -- Southeast Asian Labor in the Middle East -- Skills and Earnings: Issues in the Developmental Impact on the Philippines of Labor Export to the Middle East -- Filipino Overseas Contract Workers: Their Families and Communities -- The Socioeconomic Consequences of Labor Migration from Thailand to the Middle East -- Labor Migration from Korea to the Middle East: Its Trend and Impact on the Korean Economy -- South Asia -- Socioeconomic Effects of International Migration on Pakistani Families Left Behind -- The Impact on the Family of Male Migration to the Middle East: Some Evidence from Kerala, India -- Migration for Employment in the Middle East: Its Demographic and Socioeconomic Effects on Sri Lanka -- The Economic and Noneconomic Impact of Labor Migration from Bangladesh