Wannabe WorkersNot Slaves

Thousands of aspirant workers suffer in terrifying camps. There are no proper and firm regulations to control their treatment.

February 26, 2002

The camp looks like an emergency barracks. Hundreds of aspiring overseas contract workers (OCWs) are crowded in narrow "boxes" with four partitions. They sleep everywhere, sprawled on the floor, in the living room, in open rooms, on pieces of plastic or cotton sheets, old newspapers or whatever comes to hand. They use their cloth bags as pillows.

The number of bathrooms is much limited. The same is the case with the toilets. There

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