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Towards a Knowledge-based Labour Market in Saudi Arabia?
Françoise De Bel-Air
GCC Remittance Flows: Resiliency During Rough Seas
Georges Naufal
Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Gulf States
Françoise De Bel-Air
Ageing in the Gulf States
Françoise De Bel-Air
Long-Term Residence: GCC Countries Making a Shift Toward Inclusive Social Policies
Magdalena Karolak
Interregional Consultative Migration Dialogues and the Abu Dhabi Dialogue in the GCC-Asia Migration Corridor
Froilan Malit
What is the Nature of the Employment Challenge in the GCC Countries?
Wasseem Mina
Reforms without Rights: The GCC states’ blinkered view of labour reforms
Rima Kalush and Vani Saraswathi
Aspirations and Strategies to Remain in Saudi Arabia: the Case of Middle-Class South Asians
Areej Jamal
UAE as a Center of Innovation: Towards Attracting Global Talent
Magdalena Karolak
Second and Third Generation Foreign Residents Born in Kuwait
Françoise De Bel-Air
The Power of Micro-Level Data: Improving Precision in GCC Policy Design
Georges Naufal
Numbers Increasing, Dependency Decreasing: The GCC Changing Labor Immigration Emphasis
Onn Winckler
International Mobility of Tertiary-Level Students in Qatar
Sharique Umar
Arab Nationals in Saudi Arabia
Françoise De Bel-Air
Indians in the Gulf: The Migration Question and the Way Forward
Irudaya S. Rajan & Divya Balan
Major Innovations in the Saudi Census 2022
Françoise De Bel-Air
Migration and Climate Change: The Case of the GCC Countries
Georges Naufal
GCC: Are Oil Prices No Longer a Driver of Population Growth?
Françoise De Bel-Air
Migratory Flows of Russian-speaking Populations to the UAE
Magdalena Karolak
Domestic Workers in the GCC: A Diverse Population
Françoise De Bel-Air
Qataris Make Up Only a Quarter of All Births
Françoise De Bel-Air
Five Decades of Semi- and Unskilled Labour Migration from Pakistan
Nasra M. Shah
Saudi Arabia: Changes in Labour Force Structure?
Françoise De Bel-Air
Explaining the "Demographic Imbalance" in the Gulf States
Françoise De Bel-Air
Measuring the impact of Covid-19 on migrant workers in the GCC and Jordan
Françoise De Bel-Air
Layers of Segmentation in GCCs Labour Markets: How Well do Migrant Women Fare?
Usamah F. Alfarhan
Reforming the sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: Opportunities and challenges as a result of COVID-19 and the fiscal crisis
Sophia Kagan and Ryszard Cholewinski*
Fertility Levels, Trends, and Differentials Among Kuwaiti Nationals
Nasra M. Shah and Philippe Fargues
Fertility of Nationals in Qatar - Its Levels, Trends and Differentials in the Early 21st Century
Philippe Fargues,Noof Abdulhadi Al-Rakeb
Empowering Women and Fostering Fertility: Two Conflicting Policy Goals in Qatar?
Philippe Fargues
Literature Survey and Bibliography on Fertility in Qatar and the GCC
Jihan Safar
Fertility in Qatar and in Other GCC States: Some Elements of Comparison
Françoise De Bel-Air
Working and Living Conditions of Low-Income Migrant Workers in the Hospitality and Construction Sectors in the United Arab Emirates
Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah, Imco Brouwer
Working and Living conditions of Low-Income Migrant Workers in the hospitality and construction Sectors in Qatar
Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah, Imco Brouwer
The Legal Framework of the Sponsorship Systems of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Comparative Examination
Maysa Zahra
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Kuwait
Françoise De Bel-Air
Oman’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Bahrain
Françoise De Bel-Air
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Oman
Françoise De Bel-Air
Kuwait’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Demography, Migration and Labour Market in Saudi Arabia
Françoise De Bel-Air
Qatar’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Migration to the Gulf: Policies in Sending and Receiving Countries
Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah
Saudi Arabia’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Bahrain’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in the UAE
Françoise De Bel-Air
Possible Impact of Saudi Women Driving on Female Employment and Reliance on Foreign Workers
Françoise De Bel-Air,Nasra M. Shah,Philippe Fargues,Usamah Alfarhan
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Qatar
Françoise De Bel-Air
United Arab Emirates’ Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Wage Protection Systems and Programmes in the GCC
Ray Jureidini
Dangers of Using Aggregated Data for Understanding Socio-Demographic Realities of the Gulf Region
Nasra M. Shah
Skilful Survival: Irregular Migration to the Gulf
Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah
Qatar’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Taxing Remittances: Consequences for Migrant Labour Populations in the GCC Countries
Froilan Malit, Jr. and George Naufal
A Note on Syrian Refugees in the Gulf: Attempting to Assess Data and Policies
Françoise De Bel-Air
The Legal Framework of the Sponsorship Systems of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: a Comparative Examination
Maysa Zahra
Addressing Irregular Migration in the Gulf States
Philippe Fargues, Françoise De Bel-Air, Nasra M. Shah
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Oman
Françoise De Bel-Air
Oman’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in the UAE
Françoise De Bel-Air
Demography, Migration, and the Labour Market in Bahrain
Françoise De Bel-Air
United Arab Emirates’ Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Evaluating Financial Literacy training for Migrant Workers in the Gulf
Ganesh K. Seshan
The Socio- political Background and Stakes of ‘Saudizing’ the Workforce in Saudi arabia: the Nitaqat policy
Françoise De Bel-Air
Current progress in the Nationalisation programmes in Saudi arabia
Hend M. Alsheikh
Bahrain’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Ethnography, Anthropology and Migration to the Arabian Peninsula: Themes from an Ethnographic Research Trajectory
Andrew M. Gardner
Recent Amnesty Programmes for Irregular Migrants in Kuwait and Saudi arabia: Some Successes and Failures
Nasra M. Shah
Demography, Migration, and Labour Market in Qatar
Françoise De Bel-Air
The Legal Framework of the Sponsorship Systems of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait: a Comparative Examination
Maysa Zahra
Saudi Arabian Investor Class Visas: An Overview
Arwa Aulaqi
The Story of Remittance Flows from the GCC Countries
George S. Naufal, Ismail H. Genc
Essential yet Invisible: Migrant Domestic Workers in the GCC
Bina Fernandez
Arab Gulf States: Recruitment of Asian Workers
Ray Jureidini
Arab Gulf States: An Assessment of Nationalisation Policies
Steffen Hertog
Data Discrepancies between the Census and Civil Registration Systems in Kuwait: Reasons, Implications and Solutions
Nasra M. Shah
Demography, Migration and Labour Market in Saudi Arabia
Françoise De Bel-Air
Saudi Arabia’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Kuwait’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
Qatar’s Legal Framework of Migration
Maysa Zahra
The Demographic and Economic Framework of Migration in Kuwait
Françoise De Bel-Air

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Qatar: Students in public universities by sex and country of citizenship (Qatar) (2011/2012)

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Country of citizenship Males Females Total
Qatar 1,208 5,627 6,835
U.A.E. 1 31 32
Bahrain 36 131 167
Kuwait 3 15 18
Saudi Arabia 42 143 185
Oman 38 129 167
Gulf Countries 1,328 6,076 7,404
Iraq 39 62 101
Yemen 124 339 463
Palestine 192 400 592
Jordan 153 309 462
Egypt 239 300 539
Syria 80 124 204
Lebanon 15 49 64
Sudan 105 222 327
Somalia 38 50 88
Tunisia 18 45 63
Algeria 16 38 54
Mauritania 19 22 41
Other Arab countries 0 0 0
Arab Countries 1,038 1,960 2,998
United States 16 41 57
United Kingdom 2 12 14
Canada 3 25 28
Iran 77 176 253
Pakistan 47 89 136
India 26 37 63
Other  174 179 353
Other Countries 345 559 904
Total   2,711 8,595 11,306

Source: Universities

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

The table refers to the students in Qatar University and Community College

 

Institution which provides data

 

Qatar Statistics Authority, Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics

 

Data availability

 

These data on education have been found in the “Education” chapter of 2013’s Annual Statistics.

http://www.qsa.gov.qa/eng/publication/annabs/2013/Education2012.xlsx

QSA publishes Statistical Yearbooks available online, in Excel (certain thematic chapters since 2011) and PDF format, up to 1971’s issue. Most recent issues (2012 and 2013) are published by thematic chapters, released separately in QSA’s “latest releases”.

Issues 1971 to 2011 are available on the Qatar Information Exchange website, accessible from QSA’ website (English and Arabic website)

https://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=General&child=StatisticalAbstract

Last date of access: April 29th, 2014

 

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