Patterns of Remittances and Labor Migration in the Arab World
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Looney, R.E.
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1989
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1989
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The past decade has witnessed a significant change in the nature and volume of Arab
migration. The rapid increase in the financial assets of the major oil producing states in
the region since 197 3/74 and their adoption of ambitious development plans provided a
qualitative transformation of the migration process among the Arab states. The
transformation was multifaceted. Some of the oil-producing states, such as Iran and Iraq,
ceased to be labor exporters and became the importers of labor from non-oil
neighbouring states and from Asian countries. As a result, the unemployment problems
of some of the non-oil producing states such as Jordan and, to a lesser extent, Egypt
vanished in the late 1970s.
The purpose of this paper is to survey the record to date. What have been the major
migratory patterns? How have these affected the flow of remittances in the Arab world?
What structural characteristics have been associated with these developments?
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International Migration, December 1989.
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Looney, R.E., "Patterns of Remittances and Labor Migration in the Arab World," International Migration, December 1989.
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