Many people are dazzled by the opportunities in Dubai. Like ants that approached the sugar, the other Arabs flocking to Dubai. Unfortunately, the current situation has turned around.
Not a few migrant workers who were forced to leave beloved Dubai as the financial crisis that hit Dubai. Friends Mahmoud Tamimi said that as a syndrome of Dubai. Tamimi (31) has a nice apartment and a job in Dubai. Luxury apartment, a salary of 3700 U.S. dollars per month or about USD 35 million. The amount is tens of times more than the salary he received in his hometown, Jordan.
The situation is reversed last year. The financial crisis makes Tamimi lost their jobs. Because the apartment must be returned to the company when he was dismissed, Tamimi had to get out of the apartment.
Currently she huddled in a small apartment with his wife and two children and seven other family members in the slum area in Amman, Jordan. He is now looking for a job whose salary is obviously much smaller than he received in Dubai.
Fall Dubai not only affect the situation in the country town. Big promises the people in the financial sector of the financial miracle of Dubai is also increasingly in doubt. In fact, before the financial crisis on Dubai, engorgement of economic growth in Dubai has forced migrant workers, such as Tamimi, returned to his hometown.
Back to the country of origin for re-Tamimi is a small salary and face employment shortages in the country.
Shipments declined
The situation is affecting families in the Middle East is highly dependent on transfers from migrant workers in the Persian Gulf region and keemiratan like Dubai.
Of course, bad news from Dubai is also bad news for the Arab world is experiencing economic stagnation, high unemployment and low wages that have been frustrating the youth there.
According to World Bank estimates, money transfers from abroad who send migrant workers or remitansi expected to decline by seven percent this year across the Middle East and Arab countries in North Africa. This decrease is the first in the last decade.
In some countries, the situation is even worse. Remitansi from migrant workers to Egypt has been reduced to only a quarter of last year compared with the previous year. This report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), last October.
Arab workers work everywhere, including to Europe. However, the Gulf countries have become rich remitansi source to the Middle East. Dubai is one of the driving machine.
Dubai is built from the booming tourism trade and the fruits of migrant workers, such as Tamimi. Only one in 10 inhabitants of Dubai who numbered 1.5 million is a native of Dubai.
Impact everywhere
Not only the Arab expatriates who have been affected by the economic decline in Dubai. The impact is also felt by blue-collar workers from India and South Asia are generally low-paid work in the field of construction, such as the construction of the world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa. Philippines people who fill many jobs in service sector also felt the impact. They all lose their jobs in Dubai. In fact, workers who are still alive and living in Dubai is expected to send less money to his hometown. Thus the World Bank economists estimate, Dilip Ratha.
Tamimi now can only remember the beautiful days in Dubai.
