Persian Gulf countries are known for having high percentages of their population represented by immigrants and Qatar is no exception. According to peoplemov.in the population of Qatar is 1,696,563 and the total amount of immigrants is 1,305,428. In percentage terms, 76.95% of the Qatari population are immigrants. These statistics are outside of the norm, as migrants make up only 3% of the world’s population (peoplemov.in.) When looking specifically at the portion of the population in the Qatari working force, immigrants make up an even bigger percentage of the population. According to Qatar census data taken in 2010 there are a total of 1,199,107 “non Qatari” employed workers located in the state of Qatar. 1,070,973 of those workers are male and 505,721 of the non Qatari workers work in the construction industry (Qatar Census 2010.) To compare this to the Qatari population, only 71,076 are employed (Qatar Census 2010.) This shows that 94.4% of the working force in Qatar are immigrants which clearly demonstrates that Qatar is a guest worker country. The Amnesty International report “The Dark Side of Migration” (2013) states the reason for this large ratio of migrant workers can partly be accredited to Qatar winning the bid to host the World Cup in 2022. Qatar has very large and perhaps over spectacular plans to create a global hub for the World Cup to take place, and has needed to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to try to complete the upcoming projects on time. Most immigrants in Qatar migrate from South Asia, and one of the top migrant native countries is Nepal whose migrant workers make up around 12.5% of the total immigrant population in Qatar (peoplemov.in.) Recently, Qatar is getting scrutiny by many media outlets as ...
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