[BRIEF NOTE] Two UAE notes/questions
Aug. 11th, 2008 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe Canadian press has been carrying a few articles on a rivalry between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the former suffering a blow to its liberal image with the arrest of the couple having sex on a beach, Abu Dhabi getting a leg up thanks to its hard-hitting newspaper. This rivalry, I discovered upon googling, has been played up in the English-language media (1, 2, 3, 4).
Is this actually going on?
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In other notes, there's an interesting note in Times of India on Indian emigrant populations in the Persian Gulf area.
These news stories (1, 2, 3) seem to indicate that the Indian populations are mostly impermanent and mostly unskilled, the better I suppose to avoid the formation of a substantially Indian/South Asian polity in generally autocratic contexts.
Is this actually going on?
In other notes, there's an interesting note in Times of India on Indian emigrant populations in the Persian Gulf area.
The population of expatriate Indians in Qatar stood at 419,096 as of July 31, more than double that of the local Qatari population, a minister said.
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With the new figure of the expatriate Indian population in Qatar being released, the total Indian population in the Gulf now stands at around 4.82 million.
Saudi Arabia is home to the largest expatriate Indian population in the region at 1.56 million, followed by the United Arab Emirates (1.5 million), Kuwait (550,000), Oman (500,000), Qatar (419,096) and Bahrain (290,000).
These news stories (1, 2, 3) seem to indicate that the Indian populations are mostly impermanent and mostly unskilled, the better I suppose to avoid the formation of a substantially Indian/South Asian polity in generally autocratic contexts.
