Ill-prepared and uninformed, Ghanaian women risk it all for jobs in the Gulf
摘要
日期: 2023年4月28日
地點: 阿聯酋
其他
Not Reported ( 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業:綜合 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 26
移民和移民工人: ( 26 - 迦納 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業:綜合 , Men , Unknown migration status )議題
Poverty Wages , 食物權 , 招聘費用回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2023年4月28日
地點: 阿聯酋
其他
Not Reported ( 清潔與保養 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 迦納 , 清潔與保養 , Gender not reported )議題
Withholding Passports , Wage Theft , Restricted mobility , Mandatory overtime , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: NGO
…The Bono region is not only where a large chunk of Ghanaian migrants hail from…
All of them went through a ‘connection man’, having paid between GH₵3000 and GH₵5000 for the job. And for those who went to the place they were promised, they knew little of where they were situated…
Francis … went to Dubai in 2019 to work on a date farm. “It is Sheikha Fatima’s farm. The connection man sent me. I wanted to go to Mexico, but I first went to South Africa. They denied me. So he sent me to Dubai saying it's a good job but on a farm. I paid him GH₵8000… He said I was going to be a gardener. I ended up near Al Ain, in a palace there. There were 25 Ghanaians on the farm with him. We were given accommodation and AED1000, but no food.”
Some of the other Ghanaians on the farm have managed to get security jobs and some have left, he says. “The country is good. But we are just cheap labour. When we went there to work, money was not enough after all the expenses”…