NYT Migration Series

The New York Times focuses on the UAE in the second installment of its ongoing series about global migration. The slant of the article is about reforms in the UAE and the success of the UAE laborers in gaining limited rights such as better work schedules and upgraded accomodations and services. It is hard to tell how broad many of the "reforms" mentioned in the article actually are; they seem more like isolated incidents responding to specific cases of delinquency among labor agencies or rare protests by workers. Also, there isn't much discussion of how the UAE will address illegal recruiters.