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Article

20 Jul 2010

Author:
Erika Solomon, Reuters

Migrants workers collateral damage of UAE slump

Under an unforgiving sun, South Asian workers stir giant pots of rice, their only food, in a barren patch of desert 80 km from a gleaming Dubai skyline built over decades by migrant labor. Abandoned by employers who left the United Arab Emirates after the Dubai economy soured, the men cannot afford to stay, but they also cannot leave. They have not been paid for months and their passports were confiscated long ago..."We're stuck here while our families back home in India face a dark future with no money..." said Mohan, a worker whose employer, a labor supply company, fled the UAE...The UAE has faced criticism from rights groups who say companies go unpunished as they flout laws..."That's why we see suicides happen," Shaikh said...