The Guardian confirmed in a summary of a report prepared by specialists in labor affairs, migrant workers in Qatar are forced to beg on the streets to make ends meet.
“Despair and fear are escalating in the Gulf state, as thousands of workers are left without work, money, or a way out of the crisis”, The Guardian mentioned, citing the report.
“Many of them have become unemployed, and they have no other way to earn a living other than begging food from employers or charities”, they added.
The authors of the report said that they conducted more than 20 interviews in which workers in Qatar, one of the richest countries in the world, described an increasing sense of despair, frustration, and fear dominating foreign workers.
The report draws attention to the fact that “the plight of low-wage workers in Qatar is repeated across the Gulf, where economies depend almost entirely on millions of migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia and East Africa.”
It is noteworthy that Qatar witnessed the largest wave of layoffs of foreign workers since the beginning of the emerging Coronavirus crisis.
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