“Saudi Arabia, alongside Germany, is the world’s second-biggest destination for migrants, while the United Arab Emirates last year hosted more migrants than France or Canada, according to United Nations estimates. In Kuwait, at least 650,000 expatriates, mostly from the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, are employed as domestic workers alone.”
-Fiona McDonald in Bloomberg reports on Kuwait Prime Minister, Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah’s, statement that he would like to halve his country’s expatriate population. Currently foreigners account for nearly 3.4 million of Kuwait’s 4.8 million people. [Bloomberg]
