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Building nations with non-nationals : the exclusionary immigration regimes of the Gulf monarchies with a case study of Pakistani return migrants from and prospective migrants to the United Arab Emirates Ivan Szelenyi in collabaoration with Riaz Hassan and Vladislav Maksimov

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Budapest : Corvina, c2018.Description: 134 p. : map, ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9789631364668
Other title:
  • Building nations with non nationals
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.80057 SZ BU
Online resources: Summary: Ivan Szelenyi was the Foundation Dean of Social Sciences at NYUAD in 2010-2014 and during his tenure there he carried out a study of Pakistani guest workers who had worked in the United Arab Emirates and were about to take up a job in this country. About 90 percent of the population of the UAE are guest workers (about half of this population is from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). The critical research question for the study was: is it sustainable to build a nation with 90 percent who are not-nationals and have no legal channels to become citizens of the country where they spend occasionally a substantial part of their life? Can people from different ethno-sectarian background merge into a well functioning society? Given labor shortages in Europe and North America and extraordinary pressure to migrate to these countries these questions do have relevance well beyond the Gulf Monarchies.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 305.80057 SZ BU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Jan 2019 T0061383

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).

Ivan Szelenyi was the Foundation Dean of Social Sciences at NYUAD in 2010-2014 and during his tenure there he carried out a study of Pakistani guest workers who had worked in the United Arab Emirates and were about to take up a job in this country. About 90 percent of the population of the UAE are guest workers (about half of this population is from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). The critical research question for the study was: is it sustainable to build a nation with 90 percent who are not-nationals and have no legal channels to become citizens of the country where they spend occasionally a substantial part of their life? Can people from different ethno-sectarian background merge into a well functioning society? Given labor shortages in Europe and North America and extraordinary pressure to migrate to these countries these questions do have relevance well beyond the Gulf Monarchies.

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