Migrant Workers Persist in the Shadow of the Blast
Channel: IOM - UN Migration
Date: 2020-10-20

The twin explosions in the Port of Beirut on August 4 exacerbated Lebanon’s deepening economic crisis, stranding thousands of destitute migrant workers without work and no clear route home.

IOM estimates 24,500 migrants lost their jobs, homes or were directly affected in other ways by the Beirut blasts. Lebanon’s migrant workers hail from several different countries and have taken great risks to work in Lebanon with hopes of earning US dollars and supporting their families back home.