Saudi Arabia drives out 2m migrants

THE GUARDIAN – Ethiopian workers face hostility amid ‘Saudization’ campaign to control foreign labor and get more Saudi citizens into work. Under the watchful eyes of Saudi policemen slouched in their squad cars along a rundown street, little knots of Ethiopian men sit chatting on doorsteps and sprawl on threadbare grass at one of Riyadh’s busiest junctions. These are tense, wary times in Manfouha, a few minutes’ drive from the capital’s glittering towers and swanky shopping malls. Manfouha is the bleak frontline in Saudi Arabia’s campaign to get rid of its illegal foreign workers, control the legal ones and help get more of its own citizens into work. This month two or three Ethiopians were killed here after a raid erupted into full-scale rioting. … [READ MORE]