{"id":43100,"date":"2022-03-31T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/31\/migrant-workers-in-qatar-forced-to-pay-billions-in-recruitment-fees-world-cup"},"modified":"2022-03-31T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:28:45","slug":"revealed-migrant-workers-in-qatar-forced-to-pay-billions-in-recruitment-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43100","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: migrant workers in Qatar forced to pay billions in recruitment fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation finds labourers \u2013 including those on World Cup-related projects \u2013 were left with huge debts<\/p>\n<p>Low-wage migrant workers have been forced to pay billions of dollars in recruitment fees to secure their jobs in World Cup host nation Qatar over the past decade, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi men migrating to Qatar are likely to have paid about $1.5bn (\u00a31.14bn) in fees, and possibly as high as $2bn, between 2011 and 2020. Nepali men are estimated to have paid around $320m, and possibly more than $400m, in the four years between mid-2015 to mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/31\/migrant-workers-in-qatar-forced-to-pay-billions-in-recruitment-fees-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation finds labourers \u2013 including those on World Cup-related projects \u2013 were left with huge debtsLow-wage migrant workers have been forced to pay billions of dollars in recruitment fees to secure their jobs in World Cup host nation Qat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,2352,847,59,53,1203,86,212,241,524,61,203,2428,2430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-construction-industry","category-employment","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-inequality","category-law","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-workers-rights","category-world-cup","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43100\/revisions\/43101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}