Asian Labor Migration

Pipeline To The Middle East

Fred Arnold, Nasra M. Shah

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Routledge
07 June 2019

Regional studies

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

By: Fred Arnold
Edited by: Nasra M. Shah
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367010447
ISBN 10: 0367010445
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 07 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

"""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. """