1.5.1. Rights and Changing Policies in Gulf

More than 70 percent of Indian workers in the gulf are blue collar workers and are on temporary contracts. Certainly, many of them face discrimination, have limited rights, and face future challenges in the indigenization or Arabisation policy of these states that seeks to include more Arabs in the workforce. The Nitaqat policy of Saudi Arabia is a specific example of government policy aiming at changing the composition of the work force. These Gulf countries have a common policy of refusing to naturalize non-Arabs, even if they are born in the Gulf

Countries. Thus, members of the Diaspora in these countries are relegated to a kind of “second