Ambivalent Anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab Labor Exchange

This essay explores the contradictions unleashed by che heavy reliance of Oulf Arab countries 00 South Asian expatriate labor. While worker remittances sigoificantly boost the liviog standards of borne country households, the presence of surpius labor both stimuiates the emergence of a labor permita market that facilitates the annual extraction of bulbos of doliara and allows a modero form of indentured servitude. Oespite this reality, unfavorable economic conditinos cause South Asian workers to seek employment lo the Gulf.