Asian Labor Migration

Pipeline To The Middle East

Fred Arnold (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-01044-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the policies to control labor migration from Asia to the oil-exporting countries in the Middle East and the programs that have been set up to maximize the benefits to the sending countries.

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

"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. "

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.06.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-01044-5 / 0367010445
ISBN-13	978-0-367-01044-7 / 9780367010447
Zustand	Neuware