There are millions and millions of expatriate workers in the Middle East, especially in the GCC countries. They make up more than 80% of the workforce in most countries, and sometimes this percentage goes up to 90%.
It is really very unfair then to look down on the expatriate workers and pay them wages and salaries far below those of their national colleagues in many companies and higher education institutions. Most of the time, they are spoken to rudely by bad supervisors, bosses, and top executives. They are not treated with appropriate dignity and respect even in universities. Most of them feel they are deprived of their basic human rights. They are subjected to exploitation and abuse, and live in abject poverty; nothing short of slavery in its strict sense.
These expatriate workers feel absolutely powerless and unable to report the exploitation and the slavery practices being subjected to by merciless and ruthless employers like Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri at A'Sharqiyah University in Oman.
