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23 dic 2022

Autor:
Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic

World Cup 2022 migrant worker diaries: ‘We have not been treated like humans’

In this edition, Karun and Jagat describe their anger at the treatment of migrant workers, Joseph worries about termination notices, Faith watches the game at work, while Victor chases the tip he was promised...

I am unhappy because I don’t think the government is treating us well...We are not getting even the simplest of human rights. Workers are dying here. FIFA and the Qatar government did not seem to care about this...

The workers who have died constructing the eight stadiums are people like us. There are thousands of workers working and unfortunately people lost their lives.

The government should have properly investigated...

I want to stay in Qatar, I want to be given a chance and work here for very many years. But now there are termination notices being handed out, and they want us to leave because the tournament is over...

At the place I worked yesterday, I felt valued. For the first time since the tournament began, we were allowed to watch a game at work.

But my heart breaks for some of the workers going home, who might not have achieved their goals. So many spend a lot of money on recruitment fees to process travel documents. They may not have made the money back...

... The tournament is complete. But now some of us are being told we must leave. The company decides everything, who stays, who remains. And I’m just waiting. I want to stay here for two years.

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