Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan

Addleton, Jonathan S.

ISBN 10: 0195774183 / ISBN 13: 9780195774184

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1992

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First Edition of this detailed study of the migration of citizens of Pakistan to nations in the Middle East seeking oil workers. Cloth, 232 pages. Has a previous owner name inked on the front endpaper. Otherwise, minimal sign of previous use.

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• Titolo: Undermining the Centre: The Gulf Migration and Pakistan
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195774183
• ISBN 13: 9780195774184
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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Riassunto

This is a ground-breaking study of one of the most significant events in Pakistan's recent history - the migration of more than one million Pakistani workers to the oil-exporting countries of the Middle East. The jobs provided and the foreign exchange earned play a critical role in Pakistan's economy. The changes unleashed by migration also affect Pakistan's social and political life in a variety of ways. >LAddleton's pioneering study focuses on the decentralised nature of the Gulf migration. Hundreds of thousands of rural and urban households and large numbers of skilled and unskilled manual workers have been involved, representing a section of society that benefits only marginally from official development programmes. This in turn has important implications for the political, economic and social development of the country. As Addleton shows, the Middle East connection will continue to have an important impact on Pakistan, even for those migrants who return home.