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Dr. Nora Ann Colton is a professor of International Economics at Drew University and a Carnegie Scholar. She received her PhD from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK. She is a specialist in Middle Eastern economics and speaks Arabic fluently. She also has traveled extensively in the Middle East and authored numerous articles concerned with Middle Eastern economies.
The International Political Economy of Gulf Migration
Over the past three decades there has been much discussion about the impact of labor migration to the Gulf on the countries of origin. However, much less understood is the impact of this labor migration on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their citizens. There has been documentation that the patterns of migration have changed from Arab migrants to Southeast Asians.
