Gulf Research MeetingGulf States have the highest proportion of migrant workers in the world. Conversely, global migrants see the Gulf States as a major magnet, the third largest in the world after the European Union and North America. By contrast with its overwhelming importance for economies and societies, migration to Gulf States is under-documented and under-researched and the Gulf does not have the place it would deserve in migration studies. The main goal of this workshop will be to gather international expertise on migration to the Gulf with the aim of addressing the impact of migration on Gulf development and stability. Another aim will be to start building the Gulf migration studies community. A by-product of the workshop may be an edited volume. The workshop will be multidisciplinary and open to all the disciplines that are relevant to migration studies, such as political science, economics, demography, law, contemporary history, sociology
July 11-13, 2023, Cambridge UK
3 DAYS / 10 Workshops
MORE THAN 200 ACADEMIC PAPERS
The Impact of Migration on Gulf Development and Stability
Gulf States have the highest proportion of migrant workers in the world. Conversely, global
migrants see the Gulf States as a major magnet, the third largest in the world after the European
Union and North America. By contrast with its overwhelming importance for economies and
societies, migration to Gulf States is under-documented and under-researched and the Gulf
does not have the place it would deserve in migration studies. The main go ...
Migration and the international mobility of labour have made the Gulf States a unique part of
the world. Nowhere as in GCC countries are local indigenous populations a minority of
inhabitants; nowhere else do majorities consist in migrants with temporary residency, no access
to citizenship and limited membership in society. Nowhere else are labour markets so highly
dependent upon the international recruitment of the workforce. There has been until now three
successive stages of migration to the Gulf, and a fourth stage may well be opened in the wake
of the economic crisis started in 2008.
