Neoliberal Economic Developments and the Increase in Migrant Numbers in the post-1990s Gulf Region

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International Studies (BA)

Simonarson, Daniel Thor (2019)

Neoliberal Economic Developments and the Increase in Migrant Numbers in the post-1990s Gulf Region

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

Over the past decades, migrant labour from South and South East Asia became more and more essential to the Gulf region’s economic development and migrant numbers continue to grow. This paper provides an analysis of the political economy of the Gulf states, which aims at moving away from Gulf exceptionalism and oil centrism and instead, placing the Gulf within the global perspective of neoliberal economic development. With this in mind, the paper attempts to explain the increase in labour migrant numbers from Asia to the GCC countries after 1990, and examines these increases in relation to neoliberal economic developments, which occurred during the 1990s and 2000s.

Migration

neoliberal economic development

capitalist developments

Kafala

circular cumulative causation