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While Qatar has received less criticism in the past for its treatment of migrant workers than other GCC countries, the preparations for the World Cup have drawn more attention to the situation of workers' rights in the country. [163] Workers have died at a rate of one death per day, and workers' salaries are being withheld by employers.
These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants). According to the United Nations , in 2019, the United States , Germany , Saudi Arabia , Russia , and France had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu , Saint Helena ...
Switzerland and Australia are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world. [70] In 2010, Swiss voters approved the deportation of criminal foreigners [ 71 ] and in February 2014, the federal popular initiative "against mass immigration" was approved by 50.3% of voters.
Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have the highest population of Pakistani prisoners. [5] 2,224 Indians are in jails in Saudi Arabia and 1,606 in the United Arab Emirates. [6] In May 2020, 1000 Bangladeshi labourers who were in prisons and detention camps in the Middle East were allowed to go home.
[9] [10] The United Arab Emirates attracts immigrants from all over the world; this may be because UAE nationals prefer to work for the government or military. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The country's relatively liberal society compared to some of its neighbours has attracted many global expatriates, including people from the Western nations . [ 13 ]
The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf [2] (Arabic: مجلس التعاون لدول الخلیج), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; Arabic: مجلس التعاون الخليجي), is a regional, intergovernmental, political, and economic union comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The "Gulf Boom" refers to the mass migration of a large number of people from the Indian state of Kerala to the GCC states from 1972 to 1983. [5] Largely consisting of the migration of Malayalis, the dominant indigenous ethnic group in Kerala, the movement of many migrant workers from Kerala to the GCC states continues to the present day, although in smaller numbers after the 2008 ...
Immigration into Mexico died down in the following years, but was eventually spurred again in 1903 due to the acceptance of mutually recognized contracts on immigration by both countries. Immigrants coming in the first four years of these contracts worked primarily on sugar plantations, coal mines, and railroads. [ 68 ]