Reviews the main trends in the literature and research on international labor migration in the Middle East over the period 1974-84. This literature, which is characterized as descriptive and judgemental, falls into three broad categories: 1) international and national overviews of migration trends, remittance flows and their macro-economic impact; 2) descriptions of government policies designed to organize and regulate labor migration; 3) at the community and household scale, comparative studies of migrant and non-migrant behavior in labor-sending countries. -Author

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