The enslavement of Migrant workers in the Middle East,

The Gulf States attracts migrant workers from poor nations because of the alleged opportunities created by the wealth of these nations.
Most people go to the various countries like Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to do menial jobs like construction work, driving and as domestic workers. Obviously the of the nature of jobs attracts less educated people and sadly also from poorer families. This makes it a perfect recipes for them to be abused because of a perceived ignorance of their rights or because the employer knows of their desperation.

The migrant workers report that when they get to their destination the first thing that happens is to have their passports confiscated by their employers. They are made to work under conditions that would pass as slavery. Recently a local Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, reported a story of a Kenyan woman who had gone to Work in Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker. She accused her employer of throwing her out of a third floor window, breaking her legs and hands.

The woman by the name of Fatma Athman, from the Coastal city of Mombasa, returned to Kenya with broken limbs and stories of near-slavery in Saudi Arabia where she was employed as a maid last May. “She was lucky”, she said, “She landed in a swimming pool and not on the pavement”. She also says she would be subjected to a torrent of abuse for the slightest mistake; “I used to sleep for only two hours and I ate left-overs. That was really slavery,” she said in tears.

Fatma claimed the children of her employer also sexually exploited her. She says that she worked for five months, but was paid for only one. She says it was not explained to her why she was not paid for the other months. On the day her employer pushed her out of the window, she said she was hanging clothes on the line; “I heard my employer saying ‘you are better off dead, you are better dead”. She was rescued by the police who took her to the hospital. After a week in hospital, she was deported. “I left Saudi Arabia without luggage, not even my clothes. What I took is the few drugs I was given at the hospital.”

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