ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some aspects of the relationship between international migration and integration in Arab states. It focuses on inter-Arab migration and integration between Arab states, inter-Arab migration and integration within the labour-exporting Arab states, and integration of immigrants within the labour-importing Arab Gulf states. Then, it also gives more detailed analysis of the socially and politically important process of the integration of immigrants in the Arab Gulf countries, with particular reference to Kuwait. Several extensive qualitative materials such as novels and biographies, provide many insights into the lives of immigrants in the Arab Gulf countries by analysing available quantitative data from censuses and sample surveys. The chapter explores somewhat less general relationships between migration and integration by focusing on the impact of international migration on national political, economic, and social integration in countries of origin and destination of migrants.
