The Kefala System in the Gulf

Nick Harris tweeted that foreigners in Qatar have killed themselves statistically at 79 times the rate of Qataris. It's worth noting that the Kefala system isn't just in Qatar, it is happening in countries all across the Gulf. The British colonial rulers wanted a way to control these workers. So they decided to make every worker responsible or beholden to a local sponsor or kafil as the word was. They thought this thing that was bequeathed to us by the British is actually a really good way of controlling this foreign workforce.