Arab Migrant Communities in the Gcc
Published on 1. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-060887-3 (ISBN)
Description
Through its multi-disciplinary lenses of social history, cultural studies, economics, and political science, the book presents original data and provides analyses of the settlement and continued evolution of migrant Arab communities across the GCC, their work in and assimilation within host societies and labour markets, and their political, economic, social and cultural significance both to the GCC region and to their countries of origin.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-060887-3 (9780190608873)
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Zahra Babar is Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Previously, she served with the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Development Program. Her current research interests include rural development, migration labor policies, and citizenship in the Persian Gulf states, and GCC regional integration. Babar's recent publications include "The Cost of Belonging: Citizenship Construction in the State of Qatar" (Middle East Journal, 2014), as well as Food Security in the Middle East (co-edited with Suzi Mirgani), and Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf (co-edited with Mehran Kamrava).