Dubai’s luxury is built by workers walled out of the city they construct

Evidence

Surrounded by imposing concrete walls to obscure them from the main highway are the dorm-like facilities in which Dubai’s migrant workers live. It was not so long ago that these workers were seen walking throughout the city. To sanitize the city for tourist consumption, however, planners relocated the workers to such camps. Now they are bused to work sites, although the transportation is often unreliable. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 637 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dubai planners walled off migrant workers’ housing to sanitize the tourist city — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 637; Dubai’s post-oil economy structurally depends on exploited migrant construction labor — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 711

Broader Connections

• Dubai planners walled off migrant workers’ housing to sanitize the tourist city #expands (0.93) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 637