The Brutal Economics of Migrant Labour

Explains why migrant labor dominates in Qatar, linking incentives, remittances, and harms.

ImmigrationLabor marketsExplainerintroductorycross border migrationgulf labor marketshost country labor demandhuman costinformal coercionlabor shortage

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