ABSTRACT
The migration of Indian nationals to the Gulf has been significant since the 1970s and prominent in the current times. Currently, more data tends to be available on the Indians in the United Arab Emirates than in rest of the Gulf countries and focused studies on Indian migrants living in six host countries of the Gulf is relatively small. Oman and Bahrain stand different in the Gulf region in terms of their prior historical trade links with the Indian coast. Migrant workers are allowed to join trade unions. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) 2006 Report says, The Workers Trade Union Law of September 2002 introduced the right to belong to trade unions in Bahrain. Bahrain was the first country in the Gulf region to extend the benefit of organization to the migrant workers. Monitoring the conditions and well-being of migrant workers is an additional challenge in Oman, because the country has much larger interior and secluded areas.
