Qatar

I became a soccer fan when my daughters started playing it. I would like to look forward to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar in 2022. The country is building huge stadiums. The American women will do well. The men have a young team and a better coach. But today I learned that an estimated 4,000 workers will die during the construction.

Low status workers in Qatar mostly come from poor countries. Once in Qatar, these workers are socially dead. They are bound--men and women--to obey their employers. In effect,  they are enslaved, sometimes for life.