Essays about: "migration to dubai"

Found 3 essays containing the words migration to dubai.

  1. 1. European Muslim Women in Dubai: Religious Conversion, Migration and Belonging in a Global City

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Esther Schoorel; [2016]
    Keywords : Muslim converts; migration; belonging; group identity; women; Europe; Dubai.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the complex and diverse ways in which European Muslim converts create and negotiate a sense of belonging as migrants in Dubai. Drawing on ethnographic work conducted in the fall of 2015, it provides an intimate account of the lives of European Muslim women in Dubai. READ MORE

  2. 2. Migrant Worker: Commodity or Human?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Matilda Pearson; [2009]
    Keywords : migrant worker; Gulf States; globalisation; civil society; violence;

    Abstract : This paper uses peace and conflict theory to analyse the migrant worker issue in the Gulf States, focusing on Indian construction workers in the emirate of Dubai. Peace and conflict theory is found to provide a missing perspective on the question, which is best understood in an interdisciplinary frame-work combined with for example migration and development theory. READ MORE

  3. 3. Labour Migration to the United Arab Emirates - A Field Study on Regular and Irregular Migration in Dubai

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Brigitte Suter; [2006]
    Keywords : labour migration; irregular migration; labour market; ethnic stratification; social networks; migration theories; protection;

    Abstract : Massive recruitment of foreign labour occurred in all Gulf States since the beginning of oil exploitation in 1973. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the foreign population accounted for up to 75 per cent of the total population and up to 90 per cent of the labour force in 2000. READ MORE