Making Workers Pay: Recruitment Of The Migrant Labor Force In The Gulf Construction Industry
March 2017
A new study from the Center finds that construction companies operating in the Arabian Gulf are able to recruit millions of low-wage migrant workers without incurring the costs of the recruitment process. Instead, in this highly irregular system, most workers themselves are paying for their own recruitment – and much more – before they depart their home countries.
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