CLEAN: Financial crisis hurts Dubai's foreign labour force
The financial crisis that has swept the globe has also battered the Gulf Emirates and their once-booming real estate sector. Thousands of labourers who had come -- mainly from the Indian subcontinent -- to work on building projects may now be expelled, or forced to work illegally. Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Editorial #:
93576144
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AFPTV
Date created:
November 30, 2009
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Clip length:
00:01:57:14
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG SD 720x486 29.97i
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AFPTV
Object name:
VID99429_EN
- Persian Gulf Countries,
- 1 Minute or Greater,
- 2009,
- Business Finance and Industry,
- Color Image,
- Construction Site,
- Construction Worker,
- Crane - Machinery,
- Crisis,
- Dubai,
- Economy,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Film Montage,
- Finance,
- Finance and Economy,
- Problems,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Estate,
- Real Time Video,
- Recession,
- Report - Produced Segment,
- Skyscraper,
- Talking,
- Undocumented Immigrant,
- United Arab Emirates,
- Video with Sound,