لوركان أوينز, Author at DAWN

لوركان أوينز

Sharjar, UAE, May 2006: A portrait of a migrant labourer in an area close to Dubai where he is installing a well for ongoing construction. He is one of over a million construction workers working in Dubai. These sites are filled with construction labourers in Dubai live in labour camps.The camps are often over 2 hours away and the workers have just finished a 12 hour shift. The majority of labourers come to Dubai from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. These workers operate in extreme temperatures in the desert climate, the majority earning under $200 a month. Many have to spend a third of that sum on food provided at the camps as part of their contract. Most sign recruitment contracts in their own countries which take them into debt for many years. Their passports are held by their employers once they reach the UAE and if the company owners abscond the workers are often abandoned without their documents or due payment. Over two thirds of the Dubai population is migrant labour with 1.1 million working in construction. Dubai is currently second only to Shanghai in terms of the scale of construction underway on a 24 hour basis. All this is woefully underscrutinised by the Ministry of Labour, there are currently only 80 government inspectors for over 200 000 construction companies. Recently there have been rumblings of discontent from the workers, with strikes at numerous sites over the non-payment of wages and harsh working conditions. In 2005, according to Human Rights Watch, there were 84 suicides by construction workers in Dubai. Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

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لوركان أوينز

مارس 11، 2021

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