{"id":50550,"date":"2022-11-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/25\/doha-fashion-fridays-migrant-workers-show-off-their-style-a-photo-essay"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T07:45:00","slug":"doha-fashion-fridays-migrant-workers-show-off-their-style-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50550","title":{"rendered":"Doha fashion Fridays: migrant workers show off their style \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue boilersuits symbolise their low-wage jobs, but an Instagram account celebrates the culture and individuality of Qatar\u2019s workers in their leisure time<\/p>\n

Every day Bisho Sahani would start his work shift at 5am, constructing roads for hours in Qatar\u2019s ferocious summer heat. And every night when he returned to his labour camp, he would get out his phone and make TikTok videos<\/a> for his 60,000 followers.<\/p>\n

Most of his videos are songs and poems about love, romance and the trials of life, but among them are stories of the hardships he faced in Qatar. \u201cI wanted to show that foreign land is the land of trouble \u2026 Nepal is always better for us,\u201d says Sahani, who is now back in his home country.<\/p>\n

Images from Bisho Sahani\u2019s TikTok account, where he posts videos about his life in Qatar. Photos: Bisho Sahani<\/p>\n

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Blue boilersuits symbolise their low-wage jobs, but an Instagram account celebrates the culture and individuality of Qatar\u2019s workers in their leisure timeEvery day Bisho Sahani would start his work shift at 5am, constructing roads for hours in Qatar\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3331,"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":[576,59,53,212,491,241,524,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-migration","category-nepal","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50550","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50550\/revisions\/50551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}