Original scientific paper
International Migrations in the Arab Region
Ružica Čičak-Chand
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The late 1970's witnessed a tremendous surge in the international migration of labour, with the oil-rich countries of the Arab region accounting for an overwhelming proportion of this increase. The enchanced revenues subsequent to the oil embargo in 1973 led many Arab countries to launch ambitious economic and social development programmes requiring employment of an enormous number of people. Most of this increased demand for labour had to be met from foreign sources, at first from the neighbouring Arab countries but quite soon from the countries of South and Southeast Asia and the Far East. The main aim of the presented paper was to establish the dimensions of international labour migration in the Arab world in the last ten to fifteen years, to describe the major characteristics of a particular process of movement of labour in the area and to point to the factors that have effected the politics of the countries of employment. A further aim was to show the specific features of labour force presence of a particular country of origin (Arab and Asian) and to give the socio-economic characteristics of the different migrant groups employed in the countries of the Middle East.
Keywords
international migration; labour force; Arab region
Hrčak ID:
127701
URI
Publication date:
28.12.1990.
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