POL-UA 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Kafala System, Remittance
23 Nov 2016
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Lecture 15 the political economy of labor-importing countries in the. Oil actually has created employment, mostly filled by non-citizens. Q: how do disparate issues intersect through essential characteristics of. Corridors of emigration and immigration: north africa -> france and spain, turkey -> germany, afghanistan -> iran, egypt -> gcc and libya. Types of emigration: brain drain emigration of tertiary educated citizens. This occurs especially in lebanon, iran, morocco: refugees as percentage of immigrants in mena: 59. 9% This is compared to 7. 1% in the world: recipient countries: jordan, turkey, iran, west bank, gaza, syria, mena is the #1 host of refugees in the last 30 years. Remittance recipients in 2007 (in $ billion) Remittances: egypt (. 9); morocco (. 7); lebanon (. 5, still less than india (); china (. 7); and mexico (. 5) Remittance recipients in 2006 (in % gdp: lebanon (22. 8%); jordan (20. 3%); palestine (14. 7%) Very high percentage of expats of overall population (uae is 88% expats)
