An Interesting Read:

 

The under Belly of the gorgeous Dubai we see in FSX

 

https://www.facebook.com/drsubramanianswamy/photos/a.118146701658320.18858.107229389416718/323782171094771/?type=1

 

There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats, there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city, and are trapped here. They are hidden in plain view. You see them everywhere, in dirt-caked blue uniforms, being shouted at by their superiors, like a chain gang – but you are trained not to look. It is like a mantra: the Sheikh built the city. The Sheikh built the city. Workers? What workers?

Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town, where they are quarantined away. Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out.
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete buildings. Some 300,000 men live piled up here, in a place whose name in Hindi means "City of Gold". In the first camp I stop at – riven with the smell of sewage and sweat – the men huddle around, eager to tell someone, anyone, what is happening to them.

 

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I have grown up between the UK and Gulf most my life.  The article seems very biased, read some of the comments to get a more accurate view.  

 

I know a fair few labour workers out here, the money they send back is huge, many of them lived on the street and had nothing at all.

I have grown up between the UK and Gulf most my life.  The article seems very biased, read some of the comments to get a more accurate view.  

 

I know a fair few labour workers out here, the money they send back is huge, many of them lived on the street and had nothing at all.

 

 

Then by all means go to one of these camps and report back if it's true or not.  We all know this crap is going on with Walmart being one of the main companies doing this in China.  So to say this is untrue, biased, or somewhat true flies in the face that if it's happening at all it's wrong.  The elephant in the room is this is going on more than people realize.  Everyone has Google Earth, zoom down on any given neighborhood in Rio or Sao Paulo (for example) and see how terrible most Brazilians live.  Any area slightly outside center of city limits is hell.  There's a reason protests are being held there before big games to get the word out.  It's easy for us in richer nations to be biased or not see what's plainly there. 

 

No ethnic group should be exploited so a few rich in society can have a cushy life.  I don't know how people live with this reality and look the other way.  What's going on in Dubai, Qatar, and other nations in the gulf when it comes to labor is appalling and well documented.  To say anything remotely that this is being miss reported shows a lot about a person's character.  Currency exchange rates and inflating what people send home under these conditions is like putting lipstick on a pig...

You can also see (smaller) camps in Germany for people from Eastern/Southern Europe working in slaughter houses in Germany, for example.

 

Or camps for people working for Amazon logistics from other countries of the European Union.

 

This stuff isn't as far away as some may think ...

 

 

 

EDIT: links (in German)

 

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/schlecht-bezahlte-leiharbeiter-in-schlachthoefen.697.de.html?dram:article_id=249000

 

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/ard-reportage-dokumentiert-missstaende-in-der-leiharbeit-bei-amazon-a-883156.html

Edited May 26, 201412 yr by olli4740

Exactly Oliver, it happens everywhere. Take a look at some of the farms in the UK or Holland with polish immigrants.

 

@Dillon,  I have been to many camps! Yes 99% are a complete S***hole, most of then didn't start that way.  If you see how many of these people live back home you will see why the camps end up this way.   And before I get accused of being some rich white expat I am also from an ethnic minority here in the middle east & the UK.  

 

Anyway, I still stand by what i say.  The vast majority of these people send a large amount of money back to families in order to provide an education & get out of the slums.  Ask yourself why people continue to flock to the Gulf to earn money.  i know plenty of housemaids here that have saved enough money to build massive homes in India & Sri Lanka.

 

Abuse sadly does exist, just like anywhere in the world. I also most definitely do not condone passports being withheld, it is illegal and those rouge employers need to be dealt with.  However, once again  that article does not paint the full picture.

Manny,

 

Do you know who Subramaniam Swamy is?  He is doing this for political reasons.  Please do not echo views of people who do everything for political gains.  If he wants to contribute to what he believes is a human rights issue, he should take a govt delegation to the gulf and rescue all the workers from there.  He has written this article to get votes for his party from the family members of millions of workers who are struggling all over the world.  A kind of a ploy to make the people believe that they are aware of the problem and now they will do something about it.

 

The question is not what exists.  Now that you know about it, the question changes to "what are YOU going to do about it".  Sitting in an air conditioned environment, starting up a blog which will only give different points of view which in any case most are aware of.

 

Instead please tell Swamy who has enough political resources to start a movement and try and solve the problem.

 

Having said this, I sympathise with people who are going thru this situation.  But I dont trust Swamy to bring a change because he is a hard core unsympathetic politician who can go to any levels to suite his needs.

 

Ted