Title:	Country Profile 25 - Gulf Cooperation Council States 2012
Other Titles:	Länderprofil 25 - Mitgliedsstaaten des Golfkooperationsrats 2012
Authors:	Winckler, Onn
Abstract:	Although labor migration is not new to the GCC states, dating back to the beginning of the oil era in the late 1940s, following the October 1973 “oil boom” a unique labor migration pattern developed in these countries: not only did the nationals rapidly become a minority in the workforce (with the exception of Oman) but in Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait, the foreigners constitute a substantial majority of the total population as well. Although the authorities of the GCC states tried to gradually replace foreign workers by native ones, these policies widely failed especially in the private sector. The country profile explains why this is so and what else is unique about labor migration in the GCC states.
Citations:	Focus Migration, Country Profile 25, GCC States, eds.: Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies / Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) and German Agency for Civic Education / Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), editorial staff: Vera Hanewinkel and Jochen Oltmer, Osnabrück, 2012
URL:	https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2013081411210
Subject Keywords:	Gulf Cooperation Council; Immigration; Labor migrants; kafala system; Saudi Arabia; Qatar; United Arab Emirates; Golfstaaten; Golfkooperationsrat; Migration; Migrationspolitik; Oman; Saudi Arabien; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate; Kuwait; Katar; Bahrain; Arbeitsmigranten; Kafala-System; GCC-Staaten; GCC States; Gulf states
Issue Date:	14-Aug-2013
License name:	Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell-KeineBearbeitung 3.0 Unported
License url:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Type of publication:	Einzelbeitrag in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift [article]
Appears in Collections:	IMIS Country Profiles

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