Gulf migrant workers face crisis of unpaid wages amid pandemic - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Sebastian Castelier

Sebastian Castelier

Aug 10, 2020

A Nepali migrant worker previously stranded in Kuwait due to restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus looks out from a bus window while arriving at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on June 11, 2020. — Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images

Nepalese migrant workers queue to receive official documents in order to leave Nepal from the Labor Department in Kathmandu on January 27, 2014. Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar in 2013, figures that highlight the grim plight of laborers in the Gulf nation.

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Sebastian Castelier

Sebastian Castelier

In Dubai, reporting on regional business

An Ethiopian worker argues with a member of the Saudi security forces as he waits with his countrymen to be repatriated in Manfouha, southern Riyadh, November 11, 2013. Thousands of mostly African workers gathered in Riyadh on Sunday seeking repatriation after two people were killed in overnight rioting that followed a visa crackdown by Saudi authorities. One of those killed was a Saudi, said a government statement, and the other was not identified. An Ethiopian man was killed in a visa raid last week. Ethi

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Sabena Siddiqui

Sabena Siddiqui

In Karachi, reporting on South Asia, Middle East, Iran