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Another one of the many horrifying things I saw in the article was the concept of an "Exit Visa" which I hadn't heard of before. I just read up on it a little here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_(document)#Exit_visas

So foreign workers need their employers consent to allow them to to go home. Easy recipe for slavery.

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Employers require you to hand them your passport, and you get it back at the end of your work contract.

Not unusual for employers to owe labor several months worth of salary, and then deny knowing them, so workers get deported. A process known as tarheel in Arabic. When a worker decides to quit his or her job, out of desperation, the employer reports them and their visa status is flagged as huroob, it literally means "escapee", or runaway.

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