Full Description
Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States (edited by Masako Ishii, Naomi Hosoda, Masaki Matsuo and Koji Horinuki) examines how nationals and migrants construct new relationships in the segregated socioeconomic spaces of the region (namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).
Instead of assuming that segregation is disadvantageous for migrant workers, it emphasizes multiple aspects and presents various voices. In this way, the book tries to unfold the region's segregated socioeconomic space, as well as its new forms of networking and connectedness, in order to understand how the various peoples coexist: a situation that often entails conflict and discrepancies between expectations and reality.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Editors
Introduction: Socioeconomic Spaces and Migrants' Lives in the Arab Gulf States
Masaki Matsuo, Naomi Hosoda, Koji Horinuki and Masako Ishii
Part 1: Migration Policy and the Relationship between Nationals and Migrant Workers
1 International Labor Migration and the Arab Gulf States: Trends, Institutions, and Relations
Koji Horinuki
2 Political Economy of the Labor Market in the Arab Gulf States
Masaki Matsuo
Excursus 1: What Are the Arab Gulf States?
Masaki Matsuo and Koji Horinuki
Excursus 2: Economic Development in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha
Sadashi Fukuda
3 Gender and "Tradition": Power Negotiation between Employers and Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
Namie Tsujigami
4 In/Dependence of the Local and Dependence of the Foreign: The UAE Family, Domestic Service, and a Precarious Future
Rima Sabban
5 Enhancing Resilience: The Roles of Pre-departure Programs for the Migrant Domestic Workers toward Arab Gulf States
Akiko Watanabe
Part 2: Lives, Community, and Networks among Asian Migrant Workers
6 Formal and Informal Protection for Domestic Workers: A Case of Filipinas
Masako Ishii
7 Survival Strategies and Migrant Communities in the Arab Gulf States: A Case of Filipino Workers in the UAE
Naomi Hosoda
8 Does Religious Conversion Transcend the Boundaries of Multiple Hierarchies? Filipino Migrant Workers Embracing Islam in the UAE and Qatar
Akiko Watanabe
9 Transnational Community Networks of Goan Migrant Workers
Kyoko Matsukawa
Excursus 3: Recruitment of Bangladeshi Migrants in the Arab Gulf States: A Typology of Work Visas
Md Mizanur Rahman
Excursus 4: An Indian Expatriate's Perspective about the UAE
N. Janardhan
Excursus 5: Education, Career, and the Future of Middle-Class Asian Children
Kyoko Matsukawa and Naomi Hosoda
Index
