Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The issue of employment is an old phenomenon in Iraq, whilst specifically in Baghdad City. But it ended in the modern era with the events of 1990 and the subsequent poor economic conditions, the issue of employment ended after the foreign labor had left which Egyptian labor as the largest part of it.The phenomenon of foreign labor returned after the events of 2003 and the recovery of the local market represented by the abundance of restaurants, the increase in demand for domestic maids, and the diversity of services that required a certain type of labor, especially cheap labor compared to local labor, which became away from many professions that do not favor working in them, until it became not free of an area of Baghdad of this employment.An increasing number of workers in the city of Baghdad generated different trends towards this employment differed between being receptive to it and collaborator with it and between rejecting it and not accepting its existence. In this research paper, we will try to address the trends of the local population in the city of Baghdad towards foreign labor in it and evaluate these trends through a scale developed for this purpose, which consists of eleven paragraphs (questions) to understand these trends.After conducting the necessary statistical analyzes, four paragraphs (questions) were excluded for their lack of validity in measuring the phenomenon under study, leaving seven paragraphs that showed their success in measuring the phenomenon, to allow the research to other studies in an attempt to take a broader note of the population's trends towards foreign labor. With clarification of the possibility of foreign labor to change the demographic structure of the city of Baghdad.
Institutions: Iraqi University, University of Szczecin
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4381136806