Journal•ISSN: 2153-4764
The Journal of Arabian Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: The Journal of Arabian Studies is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Context (language use). It has an ISSN identifier of 2153-4764. Over the lifetime, 202 publications have been published receiving 1304 citations.
Topics: Politics, Context (language use), Rentier state, Private sector, China
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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of Gulf migration on the families and households that remain in the sending countries is investigated, and the particular dilemmas faced by those migrants whose families accompany them to the Gulf States are explored.
Abstract: For many decades the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have served as primary migratory destinations for tens of millions of individuals from South Asia, West Asia, and other points in the Indian Ocean world. While both historic and substantial in scale, these migration flows remain some of the most understudied movements in the contemporary world. This paper begins with an overview of the current state of scholarship concerned with Gulf migration. The remainder of the paper frames Gulf migration through the lens of family. The paper first considers the impact of Gulf migration upon the families and households that remain in the sending countries. Next, the paper explores the particular dilemmas faced by those migrants whose families accompany them to the Gulf States. Finally, the paper concludes with an analysis of the impact of these migration flows upon local families in the Gulf States.
100 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar, and they provide a means by which the extent of these problems and challenges can be ascertained more directly.
Abstract: Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling strategies. This paper presents the findings of a large representative sample of low-income migrant laborers in Qatar. The data describe the basic characteristics of the low-income migrant population in Qatar, the process by which migrants obtain employment, the frequency with which this population of migrants encounters the problems and challenges described by previous ethnographic work, and the role played by nationality, ethnicity, and religion in patterning that experience. While the findings generally affirm many of the claims made in earlier ethnographic studies, they provide a means by which the extent of these problems and challenges can be ascertained more directly.
77 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on four phenomena: the recession of communal dialects up and down the Gulf in the face of linguistic homogenisation, the fashion for code-switching between Arabic and English; the pidginisation of Gulf Arabic by the large and seemingly semi-permanent population of South Asian workers and South East Asian nannies; and the worry of some Gulf commentators that Arabic is ‘dying’ in this area of Arabia.
Abstract: Since the 1930s when oil was first discovered, but at an ever-increasing pace since the 1970s, enormous changes have occurred in the lifestyle of the people of the Arabian Gulf. These changes have had their most visible impact on the built environment; less obvious, though no less momentous revolutions have also affected family structures, residence patterns and employment. This paper looks at the secondary impact that these changes have had on the linguistic landscape of the Gulf, and how language, as a component of Gulf identity, is changing. The paper focuses on four phenomena: the recession of communal dialects up and down the Gulf in the face of linguistic homogenisation; the fashion for code-switching between Arabic and English; the pidginisation of Gulf Arabic by the large and seemingly semi-permanent population of South Asian workers and South East Asian nannies; and the worry of some Gulf commentators that Arabic is ‘dying’ in this area of Arabia.
70 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines these developments and the social and cultural challenges Qataris will face as a result of their implementation and examines the National Vision 2030, the blueprint for Qatar's economic, social, human, and environmental development over the next two decades.
Abstract: On 2 December 2010, Qatar, the exotic outsider, surprisingly won the bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, thereby becoming the first Middle Eastern country chosen to host the global festival of this ‘royal football league’. Qataris have high hopes for the tournament, and ambitious aims for their country's development in preparation for 2022 and beyond. Since the rise to power of the current Amir, Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, in 1995, he has gradually introduced neoliberal policies in an attempt to build a knowledge-based economy. These developments are taking place in the context of Qatar's National Vision 2030, the blueprint for Qatar's economic, social, human, and environmental development over the next two decades. This paper examines these developments and the social and cultural challenges Qataris will face as a result of their implementation.
60 citations
TL;DR: The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 270 pages; £55.00 hardback, £18.99 paperback as discussed by the authors, reviewed by ZIBA MOSHAVER, London Mid...
Abstract: GREGORY GAUSE III, The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 270 pages; £55.00 hardback, £18.99 paperback. Reviewed by ZIBA MOSHAVER, London Mid...
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