Sites and videos.

 

This video explains about workers in dubai but not the best info video.

Al Jazeera video we watched in class.

A Jazeera article "Kidnapped workers building U.S. Embassy in Baghdad" very sad.

What I've Done Music video By Linkin Park.

 

 

 

 

 

My Questions:

 

Political

1. Why don't the workers sponsers help the workers with their salary?

2. How do people recruit people from other countries?

 

Construction Workers

1. How much money do workers make?

2. Which countries do the workers come from?

 

Personal 

1. Do you find it hard to keep up with the building schedules?

2. How much money do you send back to your family?

 

Five main questions I would like to answer.

a. Do the workers sponsers help the workers with their salary?

 

b. How do people recruit people from other countries?

 Someone from one of the building companies travel to their country and ask if they would want to come and work in the middle east.  And for these men it is their dream to go and work in the Middle East but little do they

c. How much money do workers make?

Wel some workers make $5 a day but the lucky ones earn $7 a day.

d. Do you find it hard to keep up with the building schedules?

 Couldn't find answer but im sure they would say "Yes I personally do find it hard to keep up with the building schedules because we so many assignments to do in the one day".

e. How much money do you send back to your family?

 Couldn't find the answer but im sure they would send back about 3 or 4 $ of the earnings that the individual had earned.

 

 

OH Yeah! Prove It!

A

1. I will list my recources.

Human Rights Watch

Qatar Sucks

100, 000 migrant workers to be sent to Qatar

Al Jazeera Slams Qatar

Child Labour in Developing countries

Vietnam workers

Construction workers in dubai strike

Suicide in Middle East

Middle East Desk

2. Discuss my recources and write them down.

Human Rights Watch - Is an ok site it just gives you a place to type something and then it doesn't always come up with the correct information you want.

Qatar Sucks - I can't find any information to do with what we are researching on, it just has people's opinion of Qatar.

Khaleej Times Internet - Good information, but I only have one site about the 100, 00 migrant workers to be sent to Qatar.

Al Jazeera - Very thorough information but about my site it is just that i'm not sure about others.

HRW Child Labour - Good information but has nothing to do with what we are researching on.

Vietnam Net - Not very important just a site looking to recruit vietnamiese workers.

BBC Dubai - Very useful information good for doing a project like this.

BBC News Gulf - Again veyr good information good for projects like this and this should also be taking into affect.

 

3. Choose which information will be most useful.

I got this paragraph from Al Jazeera

On arrival, their passports are taken by their employer. On the construction sites they risk injury and even death as they work in temperatures that sometimes touch 50C.

At the end of the day, many return to crowded, cramped and unhygienic accommodation in vast camps usually on the outskirts of the cities.

For all this work the average wage is between $5 and $7 a day.

But back in their home countries the dream of striking it rich in the Gulf holds a powerful appeal for young Asian men looking to better their circumstances and that of their families.

"Many of these workers are illiterate and very naïve," Hadi Gahemi, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, says.

 

4. Question your recources.

Some of my recources are useful but for example I don't think qatarsucks.com is a useful site for what we are doing.  Human Rights Watch is very good and has lots of information on what we are researching on.  Al Jazeera, again is very good.  BBC is an ok site it doesn't have exactly what we looking for but you could find some information on there. 

 

5. Prepare a brief plan on how to start your poem.

I will arrange my information and put it into a poem and atleast try to make it ryhme cause that is the key to putting a smile on somebody's face.

 

6. Evaluate your overal work so far.

 Recources are the rite amount, disscussing is good and have good reasons, very good choice of info, qatarsucks.com is useless, good plan.

 

When my family and I went to the Pearl to try and buy a house, the man the was helping us took us to the building that we were gonna stay in and when we got up there the smell was unbarable! There was a smell of urine and sweat.  There was also unappropriate drawings on the walls. 

B

1. Arrange info.

HRW - Offerrs jobs and talks about jobs in the middle east and other countries surrounding it.  I don't think that Human Wrights Watch is the rite site for us.

QA Sucks - Talks about Qatar and gives their own opinion of it, which is wrong, very wrong.

Khaleej Times - On the site that I found it talks about the workers that they are going to send to Qatar in the next three years.  Vietnam signed the contract with Qatar's labour minister and so did Qatar.  Vietnam sent 85,000 workers to Malaysia, Taiwon, South Korea, and other Asian countries.  Vietnam government says that there are already 10,00 workers in Qatar today. 

Al Jazeera -

Vietnam Net - Has good information and also has facts about the transportation o vietnamese workers to the Middle East over the years coming up.

BBC - Very thorough information and is very useful for what we are researching on.

Middle East Desk - Ok information but has somestrong facts here and there.

2. Discuss why you chose those steps.

I chose them because they are very useful and gives me info quickly.

3. Same as above.

Information that will be most useful will be the site that is talking exactly what we are talking about.

4. Criticize why they are useful.

The only sites that i can critize are qatar sucks and hrw because they dont exactly talk about we want to know.

5. Arrange information into acceptable groups.

HRW - Has apsolutely no information on what we are working on, it just has job offers in the gulf and stuff like that.

QA Sucks - People who don't kno about Qatar talk here and give their "opinion" of the country we are living in.

 

Khaleej Times - This Paragraph is on this site and talks about sent and still sending vietnamese workers to Middle eastern countries.

"HANOI- Communist Vietnam plans to send 100,000 guest workers to oil-rich Qatar over the next three years, expanding its migrant labour programme in the Middle East, state media said Saturday. The two countries’ labour ministers signed an agreement on the programme in Hanoi on Friday after Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung visited the Gulf emirate in mid-December, the Vietnam News daily reported.Vietnam last year sent 85,000 workers abroad—mostly to Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian countries—generating income and reducing unemployment at home, where 1.5 million people enter the job market every year.About 10,000 Vietnamese already work in Qatar, says Vietnam’s government, which sees the Middle East, including the oil and gas-rich Gulf states, as a promising growth market for its labour exports.Vietnam has set a target of sending 100,000 workers abroad every year by 2010, according to the Department of Management of Overseas Labourers.Migration experts and state media have highlighted cases of exploitation of Vietnamese migrant workers who often have been trapped under harsh conditions in overseas jobs while struggling to repay large loans and air fares.Labour Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Nhan told a workshop last week that Vietnam’s labour exports will comply with international law, ‘protecting participants, especially the rights and interests of labourers,’ the Vietnam News reported."

 

Vietnam Net - This is a paragraph from the site and has alot of very important information.

"These countries are now having very strong demand for Vietnamese workers, especially those in mechanical engineering, construction and food processing industries, said Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, director of the department.The Ministry of Labor and Society of Qatar last week signed an agreement with Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to receive 20,000 Vietnam workers in 2008, and expected to receive more in the following years," Quynh told the Daily on Wednesday.During the meeting between the two ministries in Hanoi last week, the Qatari minister said his country is willing to cooperate with Vietnam's vocational schools in training workers before sending them to Qatar.At the moment, there are some 21,000 Vietnam workers in the Middle East, including 10,000 in Qatar, 9,000 in the United Arab Emirates, and some 2,000 in Arab Saudi. Vietnamese workers are said to be clever and diligent, and can meet requirements from the employers, Quynh said, referring to feedback from the Middle East's employers. However, the workers are also said to be poor in foreign languages and working disciplines.Vietnam is expected to send some 85,000 workers abroad this year, equivalent to the number of local laborers sent abroad as guest-workers in 2007, mostly to the Middle East and Asian countries."

 

BBC - Very thorough information and talks about workers going on strike in Dubai which is against the law.

"Workers blocked roads and threw stones at police on Saturday, prompting a government threat to deport rioters.

A fall in value of the UAE dirham means workers are unable to send as much money home as they previously could.

Dubai's economy has boomed in recent years, fuelled largely by a construction industry reliant on low-paid workers, many from South Asia.

But the emirate has been hit by a labour shortage recently as India's own economic boom has offered an alternative source of jobs.

Dubai's foreign workers are demanding higher pay and improved housing as they work on prestige projects such as the Burj Dubai - set to be the world's tallest building. 

Major Hassan Al-Khaiyal, of the Sharjah Criminal Investigation Department, said there had been 13 suicides in that small Gulf emirate - one of seven that make up the UAE - in the last three months alone.Major Al-Khaiyal said unfair and intolerable working conditions were the two main causes behind such suicides.

He was quoted in the local paper, Gulf News, as blaming employers for caring more about profits than the welfare of their workers.

He listed some of the factors driving labourers to take their own lives; chief amongst them being employers failure to pay salaries on time or at all.

Most manual labourers in the Gulf come from India, Pakistan, and other South-Asian countries where many have extended families relying on the monthly remittances they sent home.

A body found hanging from a rope in the room of a labour camp is usually how police in Sharjah discover the suicide of an Asian worker."

 

6. Judge whether or not some information can be excluded.

 Well all the information I have is important, so no i wouldn't exclude and information.

C

1. List possible information sources.

Al Jazeera

BBC

HRW

Khaleej Times

Middle East Desk

2. Explain why these are useful.

Because what we are researching on, these sites have lots of information about it.

3. Same as above.

Information from BBC and Khaleej will be most usefull because they explain what is going on.

4. Question why these are important.

Do they give the most important information on what you are looking for?  Well most of them do.

Which is your most valuable site?  I would have to say BBC or Khaleej Times.

5. Assemble data as to why these are important.

 

6. Evaluate the overal appropriateness.

 The overal appropriatness is good and the sites have very thorough information on what we are researching on.

 

First draft of poem:

 

Sorry

 

 

Sorry, that i had to leave and sorry for being mad

 

Sorry, that I grew up way to fast I wish I would have listened and not be so bad

 

Im Sorry for the wrong things that i’ve done, im sorry that im not always there for my sons.

 

Im sorry for the fact that i am away and you cant sleep at night when i am not there.

 

Sorry to tell you this but i regret coming here and i wish we could still be together

 

Sorry but i hope we can still be the family we used to with eachother forever

 

Sorry but i don’t think there is anymore hope and im tired of having to provoke

 

Sorry i cant visit you, my company has my passport and if all of the workers strike we will all go to jail

 

Sorry to hear about little michael our darling youngest son

 

He could even say the alphabet, i enjoyed our laughter and fun

 

Sorry but I don’t think i can handle this anymore

 

Next time someone sees me my body will be on the floor

 

Thank you for your time and dont be sad

 

For the next time you see me I will be glad