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United Arab Emirates Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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==Immigration into United Arab Emirates== | ==Immigration into United Arab Emirates== | ||
*With the expansion of European colonial empires, '''Portuguese, English and Dutch''' forces appeared in the Persian Gulf region. | |||
*By the 18th century, the Portuguese maintained an influence over the '''coastal settlements''', building forts in the wake of the bloody 16th-century conquests of coastal communities by Albuquerque and the Portuguese commanders who followed him – '''particularly on the east coast at Muscat, Sohar and Khor Fakkan'''. | |||
*The southern coast of the Persian Gulf was known to the British as the "Pirate Coast", as boats of the Al Qawasim federation harassed British-flagged shipping from the 17th century into the 19th. | |||
*British expeditions to protect their Indian trade routes led to campaigns against the city of Ras Al Khaimah and other harbours along the coast, including the Persian Gulf Campaign of 1809 and the more successful campaign of 1819. The following year, Britain and a number of local rulers signed a '''maritime truce''', giving rise to the term '''Trucial States''', which came to define the status of the coastal emirates. | |||
*A further treaty was signed in 1843 and, in 1853 the Perpetual Maritime Truce was agreed. To this was added the 'Exclusive Agreements', signed in 1892, which made the Trucial States a '''British protectorate.''' | |||
*Under the 1892 treaty, the trucial sheikhs agreed not to dispose of any territory '''except to the British''' and not to enter into relationships with any foreign government other than the British without their consent. In return, the British promised to protect the Trucial Coast from all aggression by sea and to help in case of land attack. British maritime policing meant that '''pearling fleets''' could operate in relative security. However, the '''British prohibition of the slave trade''' meant an important source of income was lost to some sheikhs and merchants. | |||
*Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates describe the alien foreign workers who have moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work. As a result of the proximity of the UAE to South Asia and a better economy and job opportunities, '''most of the migrant foreign workers are from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.''' | |||
==Emigration From United Arab Emirates== | ==Emigration From United Arab Emirates== | ||