Masako Ishii, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor at the College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan). Her main research interest is Area Studies on Muslim society in the Philippines focusing on gender, migration and peace process.Naomi Hosoda, Ph.D. (2007), is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University (Japan). She published several articles on Filipino migrants’ identity and communities in Arab Gulf states and edited Wangan arabu shokoku no imin rodosha: ‘Ta-gaikokujin kokka’ no shutsugen to seikatsu jittai, the Japanese edition of Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States. Masaki Matsuo, Ph.D. (2003), is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Utsunomiya University (Japan). He has studied the political economy of the Middle East, focusing on the relation between the re-distribution of oil wealth and the authoritarian regimes. He uses both qualitative field research and quantitative statistical analysis. His publications include "Authoritarianism and Labor Market: Preference of Labor Policies in the Arab Gulf Countries", IDE Discussion Paper No. 514 (2015). Koji Horinuki, Ph.D. (2011), is a Senior Researcher at JIME Center, the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). His main research interests are contemporary Gulf politics, security, and social affairs. His works in English include: “Japan in the Gulf: Between Intra-Bureaucratic Politics and Inter-Asian Rivalry,” in The Emerging Middle East-East Asia Nexus, (coauthor with Namie Tsujigami, 2015).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on EditorsIntroduction: Socioeconomic Spaces and Migrants’ Lives in the Arab Gulf StatesMasaki Matsuo, Naomi Hosoda, Koji Horinuki and Masako IshiiPart 1: Migration Policy and the Relationship between Nationals and Migrant Workers1 International Labor Migration and the Arab Gulf States: Trends, Institutions, and RelationsKoji Horinuki2 Political Economy of the Labor Market in the Arab Gulf StatesMasaki MatsuoExcursus 1: What Are the Arab Gulf States?Masaki Matsuo and Koji HorinukiExcursus 2: Economic Development in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and DohaSadashi Fukuda3 Gender and “Tradition”: Power Negotiation between Employers and Domestic Workers in Saudi ArabiaNamie Tsujigami4 In/Dependence of the Local and Dependence of the Foreign: The UAE Family, Domestic Service, and a Precarious FutureRima Sabban5 Enhancing Resilience: The Roles of Pre-departure Programs for the Migrant Domestic Workers toward Arab Gulf StatesAkiko WatanabePart 2: Lives, Community, and Networks among Asian Migrant Workers6 Formal and Informal Protection for Domestic Workers: A Case of FilipinasMasako Ishii7 Survival Strategies and Migrant Communities in the Arab Gulf States: A Case of Filipino Workers in the UAENaomi Hosoda8 Does Religious Conversion Transcend the Boundaries of Multiple Hierarchies? Filipino Migrant Workers Embracing Islam in the UAE and QatarAkiko Watanabe9 Transnational Community Networks of Goan Migrant WorkersKyoko MatsukawaExcursus 3: Recruitment of Bangladeshi Migrants in the Arab Gulf States: A Typology of Work VisasMd Mizanur RahmanExcursus 4: An Indian Expatriate’s Perspective about the UAEN. JanardhanExcursus 5: Education, Career, and the Future of Middle-Class Asian ChildrenKyoko Matsukawa and Naomi HosodaIndex