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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. | *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'''. | *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'''. | ||
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*The UAE is ethnically diverse. The five most populous nationalities in the emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman are '''Indian (25%), Pakistani (12%), Emirati (9%), Bangladeshi (7%), and Filipino (5%)'''. | *The UAE is ethnically diverse. The five most populous nationalities in the emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman are '''Indian (25%), Pakistani (12%), Emirati (9%), Bangladeshi (7%), and Filipino (5%)'''. | ||
*Expatriates from '''Europe, Australia, Northern America and Latin America''' make up 500,000 of the population. More than 100,000 '''British nationals''' live in the country. The rest of the population are from '''other Arab states.'''<ref>"United Arab Emirates," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 22 June 2021.</ref> | *Expatriates from '''Europe, Australia, Northern America and Latin America''' make up 500,000 of the population. More than 100,000 '''British nationals''' live in the country. The rest of the population are from '''other Arab states.'''<ref>"United Arab Emirates," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 22 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Indians in the United Arab Emirates==== | |||
*Countries in the Persian Gulf region have had a long-established economic and political link with India. Trucial Oman (now UAE), was nominally independent in the 19th century but was administered by the British Raj; trade and banking sectors in the territory were administered by the Khoja and Kutchi communities of India. In 1853, the rulers of the emirates signed a Perpetual Maritime Truce with the British, effectively bringing the region under Britain's sphere of influence. Administered from British India, the emirates developed commonalities with South Asia. | |||
*Dubai was also an important trading post for Indians even prior to the discovery of oil (in commercial quantities) in the UAE in 1959. | |||
*The '''discovery of oil''' brought with it an influx of workers from India from the mid-1960s onward. Most of the shopkeepers were from the '''state of Kerala''', or were '''Indian Arabs, descendants of Arabs who had previously emigrated to India'''. | |||
*Indian migration to the UAE drastically increased in the 1970s and 1980s, with the expansion of the oil industry and the growth of free trade in Dubai. Annual migration of Indians to the UAE, which stood at 4,600 in 1975, rose to over 125,000 by 1985, and stood at nearly 200,000 in 1999.<ref>"Indians in the United Arab Emirates", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 22 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||