Asian Labor Migration: Pipeline To The Middle East

by Fred Arnold

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367010447
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

"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. "

Table of Contents

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