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Reabsorption of Returning Workers from the Gulf: The Asian Experience

Date

1994

Authors

Shahnaz Kazi

Abstract

The paper addresses the problems of the reintegration of return migrants in the context of major South Asian and South East Asian labour exporting countries to the Middle East. The discussion that follows briefly analyses the changing trends in outmigration, the socioeconomic characteristics of return migrants to the region -their skills, occupations, job preferences, region of residence, as well as the macro-level employment situation in the concerned countries. Further the study investigates to what extent the return migration is associated with skill acquisition or upgrading of skills and the pattern of utilization by the returnees of the accumulated savings including both remittance income and the amount they bring back. The discussion is largely based on evidence provided in surveys of return migrants mostly undertaken in the mid eighties when due to the collapse of oil prices and the subsequent cuts in the development programme of the Middle Eastern economies nearly all the labour exporting countries, to varying degrees, were faced with an influx of return migrants. The analysis also draws on more recent evidence available for a limited number of South Asian countries.

Journal title

The Pakistan Development Review

Volume

33

Issue

4

Page numbers

1333-1344

Publisher

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Place published

Islamabad, Pakistan

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Keywords

The reintegration of return migrant, Asian migrant workers

Economic sectors

General relevance - all sectors

Target groups

Researchers

Geographical focuses

Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan

Spheres of activity

Economics

Languages

English