Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Development Impacts of Temporary Migration and the Protection vs. Opportunities Trade-off
- 2 The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries
- 3 The Effects of Remittances
- 4 Recessions and Remittances in Home and Host Countries: An Overview
- 5 Seize the Spotlight: A Case for GCC Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration
- 6 Migration Policy and Governance in the GCC: A Regional Perspective
- 7 Optimizing benefits from Labor Mobility: The Case for Research Collaboration between Bangladesh and the GCC
- 8 Drivers of Development: The Impact of Indian Labor Migration to the GCC
- Contributors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Development Impacts of Temporary Migration and the Protection vs. Opportunities Trade-off
- 2 The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries
- 3 The Effects of Remittances
- 4 Recessions and Remittances in Home and Host Countries: An Overview
- 5 Seize the Spotlight: A Case for GCC Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration
- 6 Migration Policy and Governance in the GCC: A Regional Perspective
- 7 Optimizing benefits from Labor Mobility: The Case for Research Collaboration between Bangladesh and the GCC
- 8 Drivers of Development: The Impact of Indian Labor Migration to the GCC
- Contributors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Abu Dhabi conference, “Labor Mobility – Enabler for Sustainable Development”, brought together national and international experts in a regional debate propitiously timed to complement the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2013 and offer practical multi-stakeholder inputs into the 2013 UN High Level Dialogue (HLD) on International Migration and Development. The conference yielded some important policy messages about foreign labor dynamics in the GCC region, including the need for governments and research institutions to create a coherent, regional research agenda and a collaborative framework to deal with the issue. GCC states have become major global players in labor mobility and could help advance a global development agenda based on better-informed, coherent and protective governance of labor mobility. This introductory section distills the key points raised in the conference and reflected in the papers reproduced in this volume, and the messages to be taken forward from the conference, both for regional policymakers and researchers and to the second UN High Level Dialogue.
Foreign Labor in the GCC benefits both Origin and Destination Countries
The employment of overseas contract labor is a critical policy issue for the GCC region. Foreign workers are required to meet the huge demand for labor in sectors such as construction and the services industry, and the scale of migration to the Gulf states makes the region a major player in the global migration and development field.
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- Labor MobilityAn Enabler for Sustainable Development, pp. 1 - 28Publisher: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and ResearchPrint publication year: 2013