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The Impact of Immigration Policy on Indian Contract Migrants: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
The oil price hike in 1973 and the consequent earning of large revenue accelerated a process of industrialization and social change in the West Asian countries characterized by massive investment in social and economic infrastructure, necessitating the service of a large number of foreign workers. M...
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| Formato: | Printed Book |
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International Migration Vol. 41 (4) 2003
2003
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| Acceso en liña: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/002371.pdf |
| Summary: | The oil price hike in 1973 and the consequent earning of large revenue accelerated a process of industrialization and social change in the West Asian countries characterized by massive investment in social and economic infrastructure, necessitating the service of a large number of foreign workers. Migrant labour was required not only in construction projects, but also to work in industry, trade, and services, including household services. Thus, a large number of Indian workers began to migrate mainly to the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Among these countries, UAE was one of the principal destinations of Indian migrants (Zachariah et al., 2001a, 2001b). The migration to UAE started with a few thousand during the early 1970s assumed large proportions during the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence suggests that there had been a substantial increase in migration to the UAE during the first half of the 1990s. However, the situation drastically changed in 1996 and a large number of Indian emigrants were forced to return to Indiabecause of immigration policy changes by the UAE Government (Prakash, 2000; Zachariah et al., 2003). The total stock of Indians in UAE was estimated around 1 million in 2000. It is estimated that the volume of remittances from the migrant workers from UAE to India was around Rs.7,200 crores in 2000 (Zachariah et al., 2002). The objective of this paper is to examine the immigration policy of the UAE Government and its impacts on Indian contract workers |
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