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Don't be a Guest Worker in Dubai - They have Debtor's Prison!

Almost every other nation is curtailing their imported labor due to economic contraction but this story shows just how complex it can get if you are imported labor in a country which is not your own. In Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down , foreigners are abandoning their credit cards, cars and have even done the more stupid thing of buying property in Dubai, on a temporary work visa....so now they are getting laid off. Dubai cannot provide them with a job and to make it even more interesting, Dubai has debtor's prison!

Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai’s fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage.

An abandoned car in a parking garage in Dubai. One report said 3,000 cars were sitting abandoned at the Dubai Airport.