Kuwait and Asian Expatriate Workers

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This paper shows that the examination of the treatment of expatriate workers in Kuwait leads to the conclusion that, while Western expatriates are offered fair treatment, and their contribution is adequately valued, Asian workers should be discouraged, through the publication of the abuse that Asian expatriates experience in Kuwait, from working in Kuwait. The paper also argues that the Kuwaiti government needs to be encouraged to pass labor laws to protect the country's Asian expatriate population, especially the women laborers. The paper includes a detailed outline.

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"Western expatriates in Kuwait are highly valued and their presence and contribution is considered imperative to the country's development. American and European males and females are intensively recruited, as Robert E. Looney observes in an article published in International Journal of Social Economics, titled "Foreign Workers and the Provision of Public Services: The Case of Kuwait." Besides the fact that Western expatriates receive high salaries from their employers, the Kuwaiti government offers them access to important public services. These include health care and education. However, this particular group does not make use of these free services, or at least only an average of .45% do, because their employment contracts and their salaries allow them access to private health care and education. The interesting aspect of "Kuwaiti generosity" is that it only covers native Kuwaitis and Westerners but not other groups, such as expatriate Arabs and Asians (Looney)."

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