The bad news came by text message. Indian workers from the Uttar Pradesh town of Meerut, home for the Muslim festival of Eid at the weekend, were told by SMS that their jobs in a Dubai tile factory were gone, their visas cancelled.
Many more of the 4.5m Indian workers in the Gulf, almost half of whom find employment in the United Arab Emirates, will now fear for their livelihoods after the near default of Dubai’s biggest state conglomerate, Dubai World.
India is one of the most vulnerable countries to a collapse in Dubai. The emirate and neighbouring Abu Dhabi have grown over the past 30 years on the back of south Asian labour and expertise.
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