Special Issue: Recent labor and migration policy reforms in the Gulf States: Winners and losers
Guest Editors: Nasra M Shah and Françoise De Bel-Air

Special issue introduction

The socio-political background of Gulf migration and labor policy reforms
Françoise De Bel-Air and Nasra M Shah

Special issue articles

The economic visions of the Gulf states and their approaches to migrants
Justin Alexander

Migrant labor and citizens in Kuwait: (Mis)managing Kuwaitization and the demographic imbalance
Dalia Abdelnabi

Assessing skills gaps in a post-pandemic landscape: Insights from Oman and Kuwait
Nejla Ben Mimoune and Nader Kabbani

Saudization in a “Saudi First” kingdom
Andrew Michael Leber

Migrant worker policies and the spillover effects on educational outcomes and employment aspirations of national children in the Gulf
Bilesha Weeraratne

Neoliberal migration states in the Gulf: High-skilled migrants, domestic socio-legal reforms and the centralized migration management in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Froilan Malit and Yusra AlShanqityi

The middle-class Pakistanis’ experience of everyday integration in Dubai: Beyond the Western-centric approach
Gennaro Errichiello

Reforms or deforms? The rise and decline of the rentier middle class in the United Arab Emirates
Mira Al Hussein

Conference report

A summary of the conference Framing Migration: The Role of Religious Actors in the Production of International Law at the National University of Singapore
Bryan Goh and Phi-Van Nguyen