Migrant labour and the true price of remittances

Migrant labour and the true price of remittances

Mark Roden is the founder and chief executive of Ding

The GCC is a part of the world that commands sheer amazement at the pace with which it has developed helped by the vast influx of migrant labour, who have been instrumental in building the economies of the GCC.

But over these past few months, thousands of these expats and migrant workers with means to pay for their flights have left the region, heading back home to weather the economic uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. 

With lockdown, the ability to work and earn a living was stunted and as cases soared during the peak of the pandemic, it was areas inhabited mainly by migrant workers that were most affected. In Dubai, entire areas were closed off to contain the virus, limiting