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‘I am starving’: the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers
Sarah Best
2nd October 2020
The following article highlights how some migrant workers in Dubai are trapped as a result of Covid-19 and the oil price crash.
While companies were ordered to continue providing accommodation and food early on in the pandemic even if they had made employees redundant, not all have done so. In some cases, workers are not able to return home or are owed money.
This article could be used for the Global Development unit.
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