Dubai/Gulf migrant workers as de facto slaves
example · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
Hundreds of thousands of workers from Nepal, Indonesia etc. in the UAE have their passports confiscated, work for minimal pay, and are formally barred from public city spaces, not formal slaves but de facto slaves, a new form of apartheid existing alongside global human rights discourse.
As told 2
“their passports are taken, they work for absolutely miserable sums... formally they are not allowed to enter the public space the city”
“He took me to those totally invisible housings where immigrant workers work under terrible conditions with passport stay, in real conditions of what basically is slavery.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Stathis Kouvélakis1Joseph Conrad1Robin Blackburn1Chuck Norris1Jeroen Dijsselbloem1Amy Goodman1Abdullah Öcalan1Niklas Luhmann1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Hundreds of thousands of workers from Nepal, Indonesia etc. in the UAE have their passports confiscated, work for minimal pay, and are formally barred from public city spaces, not formal slaves but de facto slaves, a new form of apartheid existing alongside global human rights discourse., illustrating de facto slavery,the gap between human rights discourse and capitalist reality
A taxi driver in Dubai takes Žižek to the invisible housing of migrant workers whose passports are confiscated, a medieval-style slavery underpinning the most modern capitalist showcase cities, invisible to ordinary visitors., illustrating capitalism / new slavery,apartheid society,real abstraction