Abstract
In Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, domestic work sector and policies remain, largely, under-researched. While no official estimates of domestic worker populations have been recorded in the GCC, the United Nations - International Labor Organization (UN-ILO) (2010) suggests that over 2,107,000 total domestic workers work in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These particular domestic workers while excluded from national labor laws have not only shaped the social fabric of Arab Gulf societies, but also have produced tensions over fundamental labor rights within host countries. This paper broadly explores the domestic work sector and policies in the Arab Gulf countries, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It focuses in particular, on the question: What are the policy implications of domestic work sector within the Arab Gulf economies?
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