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Anyone who came into contact with migrant workers from Southeast Asia during the World Cup weeks in Qatar – which was very easy because of the 2.7 million inhabitants of the emirate only ten percent are Qatari citizens – saw many of their assessments confirmed, but also some adjusted. Qatar as a country that owes its glittering towers, its museums, conference centers and super arenas built in record time in the desert sands to a kind of modern slave trade, namely the exploitation of workers from the poorest parts of the world: yes, there is much that is true and deserves much criticism . But one often heard the Ugandan taxi driver or the Bangladeshi worker in the Messi jersey say: It’s better to live in Doha than in Kampala or Dhaka. And better than in Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
