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Dr Sophie Olver-Ellis

The author is a political economist and works as a Research Officer at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre. Her research focuses on the transforming political economies and emerging geopolitical dynamics of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in the post-oil dependent era.
Middle East and Africa

Why the Transforming Arabian Gulf States Need to Abandon the Archaic Kafala System

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The notorious Kafala system has restricted the socio-economic mobility of migrant workers across the Arabian Gulf over the oil-development decades and currently binds more...

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