Migration from North Africa and the Middle East by Alessandra Venturini Philippe Fargues

Author:Alessandra Venturini, Philippe Fargues [Alessandra Venturini, Philippe Fargues]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780767130
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Dynamics of skilled emigration from Jordan

Little data is available on migration from Jordan. This does not have to do with technical and administrative inefficiency, but rather with Jordan's long-standing ‘open-door’ policy: keeping records of stocks and flows of migrants is not yet part of the Kingdom's administrative ‘culture’. There is, first, the political sensitivity of certain information, which means that said information cannot be disseminated publicly. Then, second, enforcing data collection systems demands popular and institutional involvement, for which political consensus is indispensable. Despite some data-collecting attempts in the 2000s3 which have yet to be released to the public, the dearth of data reveals political concerns over emigration from Jordan. For similar reasons, receiving countries such as the Gulf States are reluctant to publish detailed statistics on foreign communities.

Jordanian migrants: stocks and flows

Table 8.1 gives various estimates of the numbers of Jordanian workers in the Gulf States today.4 The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for its part, estimated from 800,000 to one million Jordanian expatriates (workers and family members), prior to launching a survey on Jordanians abroad on the basis of Consular Reports (Abd el Had, 2009) in 2009.

Table 8.1 Jordanian workers in oil-producing countries: some estimates

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