I just saw a french (i think, could be Swiss French too) documentary about the harsh conditions of the labourers in Dubai.
Before I accept an offer to work in Dubai (as an engineer), I would like to know if the exploitation is wide-spread or the interviewers just haphazardoudly took the worst cases so we have the wrong picture.
What I saw in the documentary: Bad workconditions, e.g. every day someone gets killed by an accident, and the suicide rate among the Indian, Nepalese, Paki, ... labourers is impressively high. Labourers have their passport taken and can't get it back to quit the job and go back home. They (especially the Chinese) are packed together in what we in Europe would call Concentration Camps. They are mostly all lured to Dubai with financial prosperty but the dream is quickly destroyed once they arrive.
The diplomats of the concerned citizens (Indian,..) can't (won't) put pressure on the Dubai authority because they are happy to get extra jobs for their large domestic workforce.
Any country that exploits people (labourers of other countries) , hides the truth for objective researchers, uses its police-mussle (to avoid contact between labourers and the press), is in my eyes a REAL underdevelopped country: No matter how fancy and luxurious the buildings you make.
Like we say: You can give a monkey a golden ring, but it remains a monkey.
So, is it a problem or is it exagerrated?