Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“We interviewed two hundred workers for our new report ‘ Certified Exploitation: How Equitable Food Initiative and Fair Trade USA Fail to Protect Farmworkers in the Mexican Produce Industry .’ They detailed widespread wage theft, sexual harassment, rampant retaliation, and, in the most extreme cases, forced labor.”

Qatar World Cup 2022

“Exploitation under temporary migration regimes is far from exceptional and should be understood as structural. Certainly, we should highlight exploitation and be enraged about abuse, but this should not be exoticised as something uniquely Qatari. This, after all, is not about Qatar. It’s about the geographies of exploitation inherent in a global economy that succeeds or fails based on its ability to gain the most for the least amount of cost.” The Orientalist discourse hides structural exploitation Related Italy’s Migrant Boot Camp Raped, beaten, exploited “Italy’s Sikh Slaves” Spain: “If you don’t want to work like a slave …”

Some call it exploitation. Others call it meeting target and productivity. “We have borrowed a lot of money to come here, we passed long distance, left our relatives, not to get this. We came to work but we can’t work, earn money, we can’t save money and help our families. Sometimes there is a feeling that we can’t prove anything, that no one will help us.”   Low-paid migrant workers ‘trapped’ on Britain’s farms

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 While football fans will be next year lying on the sofas and cheering in pubs and in front of outdoors giant screens ... More than 6,500 migrant workers have died  in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup  

 Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon

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