The plight of Asian and African workers and labourers in the Middle Eastern countries that needs up rooting at the UN Level. These hostile and inhuamne conditions do not affect X Pat immigrants in the M.E. By Michaeld Siddique of the USA Subsistence level wages. Your passport (papers) are with your master. You cant travel at will. You cant even leave the country at will- it too require the masters permission. You cant switch jobs. You must live in the workers colony in shared squalid quarters. No labor laws to protect you from any abuse of the master. If you escape from your employer, you are a fugitive with no papers. If you file a complaint against the employer, its more than likely that you will end up in jail, detained for several months and then deported. Modern slavery? No, its medieval slavery and its being practiced in the Middle East, today. The slaves as always are the colored people. These rules do not apply to the Western expats.
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 12:24:03 +0000
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