Book review : Offshore citizens. Permanent temporary status in the Gulf

Abstract

In recent years, the study of citizenship, residency, and migration in the Middle East has become a key scholarly question related to a number of traditional academic concerns: security, democratization, rule of law, wealth creation, exploitation, nationalism, and national identities. In the Arab Gulf region, this focus has been all the more prevalent in countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar, in which more than 90 percent of their resident populations are expatriates and in which these extreme population dynamics have visibly changed the social–economic fabric for any visitor to witness.