A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar

Journal of Arabian Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Gardner, Andrew ^a   Pessoa, Silvia ^b   Diop, Abdoulaye ^c   Al Ghanim, Kaltham ^c   Le Trung, Kien ^c   Harkness, Laura ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^d Department of Social Sciences at Qatar University ^*

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; Gulf; migration; Qatar; South Asia; survey; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906701694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21534780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2013.806076     Document Type: Article

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