In my previous “I beg to differ…” I pointed to nations that flourish off the backs of women and minorities…but really, it’s using the poor, in their powerless circumstances that really makes the employers wealthy, as we see in this post. Bless the poor.
Faisal Al Fouzan is a Kuwaiti photographer. He considers the camera as an extension of himself and spends a lot of time collecting visual stories in and around Kuwait. He is the recipient of the 2014 Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP) Grant by Magnum Foundation.
Non-Citizens of Kuwait is Fouzan’s series of street portraits of the low income laborers working and living in Kuwait.
There are two groups of non-citizens in Kuwait. The first one is migrant workers. According to Human Rights Watch (2012 report), migrant workers in Kuwait comprise eighty percent of the country’s workforce, but continue to face exploitation and abuse under the sponsorship system.
The second one is Bidun. At least 106,000 stateless persons, known as Bidun, live in Kuwait. After an initial registration period for citizenship ended in 1960, authorities shifted Bidun citizenship applications to a series of administrative committees that have avoided resolving…
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