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Why Do They Keep Coming? Labor Migrants in the Persian Gulf States

Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf, Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar, eds. Hurst & Company, London, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-84904-210-9

21 Pages Posted: 26 Jun 2019

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Andrew Gardner

University of Puget Sound

Date Written: January 01, 2012

Abstract

Based on sustained and multi-sited ethnographic work, this book chapter seeks to explain why migrants continue to flow to the wealthy states of the Arabian Peninsula despite the problems, challenges, and exploitations that many transnational labor migrants encounter there. The chapter concentrates on three overlapping explanations: poverty and structural violence in the migrant sending countries; misinformation and disinformation that shapes migrants' decisions to migrate; and the image and aura that migrants themselves construct around their time abroad.

Keywords: Qatar, Migration, transnational labor migration, Arabian Peninsula, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Kafala

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Gardner, Andrew, Why Do They Keep Coming? Labor Migrants in the Persian Gulf States (January 01, 2012). Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf, Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar, eds. Hurst & Company, London, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-84904-210-9, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3408452

Andrew Gardner (Contact Author)

University of Puget Sound ( email )

1500 N Warner St.
Tacoma, WA 98416
United States

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