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Titolo: Cosa succede quando si cacciano gli immigrati

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudis-feel-the-pinch-following-labour-crackdowns-1.1255123
 
 
Saudis feel the pinch following labour crackdowns
Many small firms have closed after their foreign workers fled or were 
arrested in Saudi Arabia
 
AP Published: 16:39 November 14, 2013 Gulf News
 
Riyadh: Garbage is piling up on streets around the mosque housing the 
burial site of the Prophet Mohammad. Grocery stores have shut their 
doors and almost half of Saudi Arabia’s small construction firms have 
stopped working on projects.
The mess is because foreign workers on which many businesses rely are 
fleeing, have gone into hiding or are under arrest amid a crackdown 
launched on November 4. targeting the kingdom’s 9 million migrant laborers.
Decades of lax immigration enforcement allowed migrants to take low-wage 
manual, clerical and service jobs that the kingdom’s own citizens 
shunned for better paying, more comfortable work.
Now, authorities say booting out migrant workers will open more jobs for 
citizens, at a time when unemployment among Saudis is running at 12.1 
percent as of the end of last year, according to the International 
Monetary Fund.
However, the nationalist fervour driving the crackdown risks making 
migrant workers vulnerable to vigilante attacks by Saudis fed up with 
the seemingly endless stream of foreigners in their country.
Since the Saudi government began issuing warnings earlier this year, 
hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have been deported, though some 
were able to avoid arrest by getting proper visas in an amnesty program.
 
That amnesty ended last week, and some 33,000 people have since been 
placed behind bars. Others have gone into hiding. With fewer people to 
do the job, the state-backed Saudi Gazette reported that 20,000 schools 
are without janitors. Others are without school bus drivers. Garbage 
became so noticeable around the mosque housing the Prophet Mohammad’s 
tomb that a top city official in Medina helped sweep the streets, the 
state-backed Arab News website reported.
About 40 per cent of small construction firms in the kingdom also have 
stopped work because their foreign workers couldn’t get proper visas in 
time, Khalaf Al Otaibi, president of the World Federation of Trade, 
Industry and Economics in the Middle East, told Arab News.
Saudis say dozens of businesses like bakeries, supermarkets, gas 
stations and cafes are now closed. They say prices have also soared for 
services from mechanics, plumbers and electricians.
Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, told The 
Associated Press that if the kingdom wants to be serious about the 
problem, authorities should look at the labor laws and not at the workers.
Saudi Arabia’s sponsorship system, under which foreign laborers work in 
the kingdom, gives employers say over whether or not a foreigner can 
leave the country or change jobs, forcing many into illegal employment.
“The entire system by which Saudi Arabia regulates foreign labour is 
failing,” he said. The owner of a multi-million dollar construction 
company in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, said he had to halt all of his 
projects. He told the AP he was not the legal sponsor of most of his 
laborers but that they made more money working as freelance hires.
“These people have worked in this country and their blood is in the 
stones and buildings,” he said, speaking anonymously for fear of 
government reprisal. “You cannot just, like that, force them out.”
Despite feeling the loss of the everyday work the foreign laborers 
provided, Saudis largely have cheered on the police. Residents have 
taken matters into their own hands on several occasions, despite police 
calling on the public not to make citizen arrests.
“This is not racism or a lack of respect for diversity, but you cannot 
imagine how much negative comes from these groups instead of positive. 
These people, every day, cause problems,” said Jeddah resident Abdul 
Aziz Al Qahtani, who posted online video from the Riyadh clashes that he 
said a friend took.
Since the weekend clashes, Saudi officials say 23,000 Ethiopians, 
including women and children, have turned themselves in to the police. 
Authorities are now holding them in temporary housing ahead of 
deportation, saying many have no documentation at all, having made their 
way into the kingdom with the help of smugglers by way of Yemen.
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that officials in Addis 
Ababa sought an explanation from Saudi Arabia’s envoy over the 
“mistreatment” of Ethiopians in the kingdom. Workers from neighboring 
Yemen also face harassment.
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman posted a picture last 
week on her Facebook page of what appeared to be a Saudi man in his car 
grabbing hold of a Yemeni man for a police officer.
Saudi columnist Abdul Rahman Al Rashed cautioned Saudis to remember that 
without “a strong state and oil revenues” they too may have emigrated in 
search of work. “Those deprived of the chance of a proper life can 
understand the feeling of those wanting to seek a better life,” he wrote 
in the Asharq Al Awsat newspaper.
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Namib
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Земля - колыбель человечества, но нельзя вечно жить в колыбели
(Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский)

 Saudis feel the pinch following labour crackdowns
 
 
Arabia Libera! Mai mulà! Teign dur!
Viva il couscous taragno!

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Fortunatamente, i leghisti sono una minoranza. Peccato non siano una 
minoranza oppressa, però: siamo troppo liberal, verso questi parassiti.
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http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudis-feel-the-pinch-
 
following-labour-crackdowns-1.1255123
 
 
 
vuoi dire che se cacciamo i clandestini che ci assediano ai parcheggi 
degli ospedali e ci asfissiano sulle spiagge per venderci le borse e 
cacciamo i delinqunti da via Padova a Milano e dagli altri centri storici 
off limits per donne e anziani e si cacciano i ladri di rame per tenerci 
solo chi ha un lavoro succede un casino'
 
Mmazza tu sì che sei intelligente!
 
Son tutti così a sinistra?
 
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Il contenuto di questo messaggio è frutto di fantasia e 
non deve essere collegato a niente di reale. Serve solo 
come spunto di riflessione. W LA PADANIA LIBERA
 

 vuoi dire che se cacciamo i clandestini che ci assediano
 
Ma chi *ti* "assedia" :), inferiore? A parte l'accalappiacani, intendo...
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 Viva il couscous taragno!
 
Ma LOL!

 
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudis-feel-the-pinch-
 
following-labour-crackdowns-1.1255123
 
 
 
vuoi dire che se cacciamo i clandestini che ci assediano ai parcheggi
degli ospedali e ci asfissiano sulle spiagge per venderci le borse e
cacciamo i delinqunti da via Padova a Milano e dagli altri centri storici
off limits per donne e anziani e si cacciano i ladri di rame per tenerci
solo chi ha un lavoro succede un casino'
 
Mmazza tu s� che sei intelligente!
 
Son tutti cos� a sinistra?
 
Gentaglia come quello a cui hai risposto sono il cancro che uccide 
l'Italia..vanno eliminati