Migration & Human Rights

Stories of Origin is a series that explores the lived experiences of both returning and potential migrants and their families. This is the second of a three-part piece on migrant fishermen from southern India. In the first part we spoke to families left behind in a village in the deep south of India.

Stories of Origin is a series that explores the lived experiences of migrants and their families. This is the first of a three-part piece on migrant fishermen from southern India.

This January, the UAE’s Ministry of Labor issued three decrees regulating labor conditions.

Recognize the work and rights of migrants.

If you are a lower-income migrant worker in Qatar and find yourself in an unfavourable employment situation, the feeble system in place to ‘protect’ your rights will more often than not fail you.