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Dubai’s Labor Ghetto

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Feb 18, 2008
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Almas Tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers in Dubai, February 2007

Although Dubai and its neighboring Gulf emirates have posted economic growth in recent years that would embarrass China, much of it is built on an invisible worker army – predominantly South Asian — whose endless toil is crucial to Dubai's massive boom and who are housed in a slum of astonishin…

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