"On Saadiyat, and throughout the gleaming cityscapes of Abu Dhabi and
Dubai, the construction work force is almost entirely made up of Indian,
Pakistani, Bangladeshi Sri Lankan and Nepalese migrant laborers. Bound
to an employer by the kafala sponsorship system, they arrive heavily
indebted from recruitment and transit fees, only to find that their gulf
dream has been a mirage. Typically, in the United Arab Emirates, the
sponsoring employer takes their passports, houses the workers in
substandard labor camps, pays much less than they were promised and
enforces a punishing regimen under the desert sun."
Read Andrew Ross' article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/opinion/high-culture-and-hard-labor.html?_r=0
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