The weaknesses of laissez-faire theories and policies on international labor migration are examined by reviewing contemporary labor migration in the Middle East. Estimates of the number of Arab migrant workers in the Arab region in 1975 are presented and three types of problems that labor migration creates for sending countries are identified: "(1) uncertainty for both economic and political reasons about the continuation or expansion of the current flows; (2) micro effects of remittance spending and labor migration; and (3) the selectivity of migration and its impact on certain key sectors." It is argued that although individual migrants and employers benefit from laissez-faire migration policies the impacts on sending societies as a whole are ambiguous. (EXCERPT)
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