Summary

This report analyses the legal (de jure) coverage of social protection for migrant workers among the six Member States of the GCC, which currently comprises the Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the State of Kuwait (Kuwait), the Sultanate of Oman (Oman), the State of Qatar (Qatar) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It constitutes a background source for the report “Social protection for migrant workers in countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC): A Regional mapping of provisions on paper and in practice” (Forthcoming), which gives an overview of de facto and de jure access to social protection for migrant workers across nine contingencies, including enablers and barriers to expanding coverage.