2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Expatriate Workers in the Arab Gulf States: Focusing on Ethno-national Relations
| Project/Area Number |
23401014
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Kagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
HOSODA NAOMI 香川大学, インターナショナルオフィス, 講師 (70452290)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ISHII Masako 大阪大学, 大学院・人間科学研究科, 准教授 (40353453)
TSUJIGAMI Namie 東京大学, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 特任准教授 (30584031)
MATSUO Masaki 宇都宮大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (10396616)
MATSUKAWA Kyoko 奈良大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (00379223)
WATANABE Akiko 文教大学, 国際学部, 講師 (70553684)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 湾岸諸国 / 外国人労働者 / 共生・分断 / 地域研究 / グローバル化 / フィリピン / インドネシア / インド |
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| Research Abstract |
A large expatriate population resides in the six oil-rich Arab Gulf states. In some of them, such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the percentage of foreign population has exceeded 80 percent. Despite such an unprecedented nature of the phenomenon, few studies have been done to investigate it in a comprehensive manner. This research project, consisting of area studies experts on both Gulf countries and major sending countries, has examined how these states have managed the huge migrant workers coming from around the globe without much political turmoil, as well as how migrants themselves manage to live in an extremely multicultural social environment, all employed as unstable temporary contractual workers, focusing on their relationships with co-nationals and those of different nationalities.
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