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Those (really) poor and oppressed people are guest workers. That's the official line, anyway. The whole issue of who is a citizen, and who has merely been ther

Those (really) poor and oppressed people are guest workers. That's the official line, anyway. The whole issue of who is a citizen, and who has merely been there for years is part of it. They were desperately poor before they went to Saudi Arabia, the Saudis merely gave them a marginally better option. the Saudis gave them what looked like a marginally better option.

fgf 16y ago
"That's the official line, anyway. The whole issue of who is a citizen, and who has merely been there for years is part of it." It's not a difficult issue at all, you're a citizen if the law says so. No one promised guest workers citizenship and I doubt they expected it. Only westerners subscribe to the novel idea that anyone they let into their countries are also owed a part of it (citizenship, welfare etc.). "the Saudis gave them what looked like a marginally better option." There are five million guest workers, a lack of horror stories would be surprising. I'm not convinced coercion to stay is widespread before I see some statistics, if coercion to stay is not widespread then I trust that most of the five million guest workers know what is best for them.