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I'm an journalist, based in Dubai.

The Guardian: ‘What about justice?’: Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

Decades after the US took over the territory for a military base, families separated and forced to leave their homes … More

The Telegraph: ‘I want to leave but I’m scared’: Pandemic increases risk of violence for Gulf’s domestic workers

Lockdown measures, put in place to stem the spread of the virus, have put already vulnerable domestic maids under more … More

The Guardian: ‘They have to be punished’: the mothers trapped in the UAE by ‘love crimes’

Single migrant women left destitute by Covid can’t leave until they have served sentences for sex outside marriage – but … More

The Washington Post: Migration, in reverse

Out of money and fearing the virus, hundreds ofthousands of foreign workers are flooding home Story by Joanna Slater, Kareem Fahim and Katie McQue … More

The Guardian: ‘I am starving’: the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

With no salary or money to pay for flights home, many are trapped in desperate situations in crowded labour camps … More

The Guardian: ‘We drink from the toilet’: migrants tell of hellish Saudi detention centres

Kingdom urged to rethink mass deportation policy as crowded and insanitary conditions spark Covid-19 fears Ibraahin’s* first week of work … More

The Guardian: £40m for islanders exiled from British territory goes unspent

Chagossians promised aid go hungry as coronavirus renders them jobless in a foreign state Chagos Islanders living in exile from … More

The Guardian: ‘I’m trapped’: the UAE migrant workers left stranded by Covid-19 job losses

In debt, unable to earn and refused repatriation over coronavirus fears, many migrant workers face an uncertain future Each night, … More

The Guardian: How Nepal’s migration ban trap female ‘modern day slaves’ in the Gulf

Amita* knew she had to escape. After five months of being assaulted, starved and being forced to work for 20 … More

New York Times: Virus Forces Persian Gulf States to Reckon With Migrant Labor

The Mideast’s wealthiest countries depend on foreigners to do jobs their citizens won’t. But the virus has hobbled the arrangement … More

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