When taking a flight with a regional airline on the continent, it’s hard not to miss the queues of young women in uniform headed to the Middle East. For many of them, the first time they left their county or village was to process the passport that enabled them onto this journey.
Thousands of women head to the region every year, mostly to become domestic workers. Around 15 per cent of all migrants and refugees worldwide are in Arab countries, and almost 75 per cent of these are in the states that make up the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).1
