Persian Gulf countries are known for having high percentages of their population represented by immigrants and Qatar is no exception. According to peoplemov.in the population of Qatar is 1,696,563 and the total amount of immigrants is 1,305,428. In percentage terms, 76.95% of the Qatari population are immigrants. These statistics are outside of the norm, as migrants make up only 3% of the world’s population (peoplemov.in.) When looking specifically at the portion of the population in the Qatari working force, immigrants make up an even bigger percentage of the population. According to Qatar census data taken in 2010 there are a total of 1,199,107 “non Qatari” employed workers located in the state of Qatar. 1,070,973 of those workers are male and 505,721 of the non Qatari workers work in the construction industry (Qatar Census 2010.) To compare this to the Qatari population, only 71,076 are employed (Qatar Census 2010.) This shows that 94.4% of the working force in Qatar are immigrants which clearly demonstrates that Qatar is a guest worker country. The Amnesty International report “The Dark Side of Migration” (2013) states the reason for this large ratio of migrant workers can partly be accredited to Qatar winning the bid to host the World Cup in 2022. Qatar has very large and perhaps over spectacular plans to create a global hub for the World Cup to take place, and has needed to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to try to complete the upcoming projects on time. Most immigrants in Qatar migrate from South Asia, and one of the top migrant native countries is Nepal whose migrant workers make up around 12.5% of the total immigrant population in Qatar (peoplemov.in.) Recently, Qatar is getting scrutiny by many media outlets as ...
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The migrant worker community in states like Florida, Texas, and California is often an ‘obscure population’ of the state. They live in isolated communities and have very little stability or permanence. According to the Florida Department of Health, 150,000 to 200,000 migrant workers work in the State of Fl...
Firstly to justify why countries limit their immigrations, there should be knowledge of the different types of immigrants as there are different reasons to leave from one country and move into another. In the last 30 years, the number of international immigrants has been estimated 191 million worldwide, two times as before. As ...
Making the decision to leave your country for the better is a very difficult decision. This decision means leaving your family and friends, going somewhere that you have nothing, and possibly endangering your life. Mohsin Hamid describes the difficulties of migration through the novel Exit West. In this novel Hamid follows a young couple migrating out of their home town for safety and a better life. These reasons also apply to real life migration for why people are migrating. Hamid represents the traveling part of migration through these magical doors that leads to another country, depicts learning how to find your way in a new place, and presents the difficulties of countries not wanting migrants.
In light of the fact that Qatar migrant workers work in subhuman conditions, something has to be done to change that. Therefore, for Qatar to host the 2022 world cup, workers conditions have to be improved significantly. This is because most of the migrants have been subjected to poor working conditions and low pay from their employers once they get into the country.
Since the introduction of Kafala system, also known as sponsorship system, in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) along with Lebanon and Jordan in Mashriq region, some serious human rights violations have aroused. Kafala system is a sponsorship system designed to regulate and employ migrant workers in countries compromising of GCC states (Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, and Sultanate of Oman), Jordan, and Lebanon. Under the sponsorship system, a contract is signed between worker and recruitment agency for a minimum of 2 years, in which sponsor assumes full legal and economic responsibility of the migrant, including visa status, residence, living conditions, wages, and health insurance. In other words, the Kafala system takes away workers’ rights and puts them in the hands of their sponsors. Additionally, the contract prohibits the migrant to change employing company or employer and/or to leave the country without the consent of the contractor.
As the world globalizes in terms of nations’ economies, trade and investment, borders are opened up more easily for “freer” flow of goods and products. People are supposedly freer to move around the world, too. Immigrants comprise nearly in 1 in 6 American workers, or 16% of the US workforce. Ensuring that immigrants are fully integrated into the US labour market is a crucial step in realizing the economic potential of newcomers, not only for individuals and their families but for American employers and communities.
FIFA World Cup 2022 is the second tournament of the World Cup football and be hosted by the State of Qatar. On December 2010 FIFA announced that Qatar host World Cup 2022. FIFA president joseph Blatter said the outcome of vote let Qatar be the first Arab country host World Cup 2022 in the Middle East, and Qatar deserve this honor. The delegation was concerned of the Small area of the State of Qatar, and the ability to host an event the size of the World Cup in soccer. This is considered a positive feature in the interest for all Gulf countries. But I think the FIFA inspectors are anxious to show negative points on each presenter for this hosting. Criticism has been directed to Qatar on the situation of migrant workers regarding working conditions and news about the death of workers in construction sites. So Qatar has to know how to deal and control the problems of hosting this event. Otherwise FIFA would pull out Qatar World hosting. FIFA and national football association should start to force roles on Qatar to change the treatment of labors, or the FIFA withdraw Qatar world hosting....
Camarota (2007, p.1), a director of the Immigration Studies Center, reports the data from Census Bureau, the United States department of commerce, there are 1.6 million legal and illegal migrants come to the U.S annually. Camarota goes on to say that the immigrants now take up one-eighth of the total population, who are residing in the U.S. Namely, the number of immigrant population with a rapid growth. While immigration could positively impact on the culture of the host country, it is no denying that aliens must reduce the work opportunity for native, increase the cost of the host country, and trigger social unrest.
Qatar World Cup stadium builders are people who are working in such conditions that are very sub-human. No normal person could ever want to live and work in such conditions. The people are attracted on the basis of good salary and good future and once they get their passports are taken away so that they cannot leave the country. They are not provided with facilities which are necessary for the survival; such as safe and clean drinking water and hygienic food. If the football authorities pressurize the governments of the Arab world, they might take initiatives to strengthen and improve the working conditions for the builders of the Qatar World Cup Stadium for the next world cup.
Xenophobia runs deep in many cultures, especially that of Singapore, with many incidents of foreigners running into conflicts with locals, evident in all the online vitriol expressed by locals on social media. Granting migrant workers with full political power could be a mistake if they take it too far and abuse it, threatening the social fabric of the host country. Furthermore, in Singapore, the locals themselves do not have full blown power like freedom of speech. If foreigners were to hold such power, the locals would respond with resistance. In turn, the foreigners can then use their political power to fight this xenophobic behaviour. However, the above scenario is not highly possible, as in the recent years, the locals have become increasingly appreciative of migrant workers, such as trying to integrate them into our society via activities, efforts from HOME raise awareness among the Singaporean public about the rights of migrant workers, and even lauding them for rescuing a toddler with the Public Spiritedness award in a recent incident. Furthermore, according to a recent survey, most of the migrant workers said they were pleased with working in Singapore. Hence, the extent of political power that should be granted needs to be capped to a point where the priorities of the host nation should still be met, and regularly revised to adjust to the structural changes of
Football is a great game and gathers people all over the world and removes all the social borders and racial issues between the people and makes all people behave like one family, we can take South Africa as a good example of what football can do and how it can help. When the world cup happened in Africa all the people were together and it showed how people could be together with a game, so I do agree that Qatar should host the world cup if they change the way they treat their workers and keep the promises that they made to their workers. Qatar should have the world cup if they changed workers conditions. There is evidence that Qatar is making changes to the condition their workers live in, “During my visits to the workers’ Cup and workers’ accommodation, I was pleased to learn about the developments happening in Qatar with regards to the safeguarding of the rights of workers on construction sites for the preparation of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. In particular, the standards that have been formulated for workers' welfare are a good step in the improvement of conditions. Of key importance now is their implementation based on a strong monitoring and follow-up mechanism with appropriate capacity and resource allocation. A corresponding adaptation of relevant laws would also contribute to the realization of the World Cup Organizing Committee's commitments” said Mr. Lemke. From that we can see Qatar is working for the improvements and another improvement was cancel the sponsorship system as Qatar government said they will cancel the sponsorship system as soon as possible on that we can see how they are committed to improve the workers live way, president of FIFA Sepp Blatter said “This announcement is a significant step in the r...
Migration has never been a one-way process of assimilation into a melting pot or a Multicultural salad bowl but one in which migrants, to varying degrees, are simultaneously embedded in the multiple sites and layers of the transnational social fields in which they live. This implies the fact that people were still lobbying for the government abroad. This is also not a new phenomenon, but only showed signs of intensification in recent years due to globalization – this allowed for it to happen easier than before with advancement in technology and
Qatar has achieved a status of MICE destination; however, is planning to go beyond this and become an international stop not only for businessmen, but also for a tourist sector (Abu-Dehays, 2012, p. 241).
bank, W. (2010). Migration and Skills: The Experience of Migrant Workers from Albania, Egypt, Moldova, and Tunisia. World Bank Publications.
There are many top news breaking stories that are happening around the world, but none of them are as important as the new immigration and refugee problem. Half way around the world in the middle east, there is a new surging number of refugees and immigrants that are traveling and sneaking into Europe. This is a pressing issue, one that most of which the public is unaware of the other side to this story.