The influence of migrant workforce on the security of gulf states since 1975

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Objective: The study focuses on Arab Gulf States and their ability to face the challenges of and the social, political, cultural, and economic impacts of migrant labor.

Throughout the paper, the focus was also on reaching a set of results and ideas that can help the designated countries in their efforts to enhance the security and stability of the region.

Methodology: The political culture approach was used; any political system is affected by the environment that surrounds it.

Hence, political culture plays an important part in determining this environment through the inputs emanating from the environment, and through expectations of individuals and groups that form the society, and the demands that they place on the system.

Results: The reform of the demographic defect in the Arab Gulf States requires the development and implementation of a population policy and the adoption of adequate and strict strategies, programs, plans and procedures, with quantitative and qualitative goals that are subject to follow-up, measure and objective evaluation through a phased plan that aims at reducing the number of migrants.

Conclusion: Migrant workers in Gulf States influence almost all aspects of life; the economic, the social, the cultural and the political.