slot online<\/a> would have “no impact” on the first World Cup in the Middle East.<\/font><\/p>\nCrisis, what crisis?<\/font><\/p>\nBut if Qatar does end up losing the World Cup, some of those most vulnerable would be the million or so migrant labourers who have come to the country to work on World Cup-related projects.<\/font><\/p>\nQatar is undergoing a huge spending splurge on infrastructure, worth around $200 billion (180 billion euros), much of it related to the World Cup.<\/font><\/p>\nAs well as stadiums, cities, ports and railways are being built from scratch.<\/font><\/p>\nTo fuel this, the number of workers from outside Qatar increases.<\/font><\/p>\nThis week, Doha announced the country’s population had reached an all-time high of 2.37 million.<\/font><\/p>\nUp to one million of those are migrant blue collar workers, a number that will double by 2020, at least as long as Qatar keeps the World Cup.<\/font><\/p>\nIf it doesn’t, then it is anyone’s guess what might happen to the workers on the frontline.<\/font><\/p>\n– ‘No cup, no jobs’ –<\/font><\/p>\nBaju, a construction worker from southern India, said on Wednesday that recruitment of workers from his country and others such as Bangladesh and Nepal would continue regardless of what happens in Switzerland.<\/font><\/p>\nHaving just finished his shift in central Doha and resting in the shade at a bus stop, he said he was confident that there would still be work for many of his compatriots even if the 2022 tournament was hosted elsewhere.<\/font><\/p>\nHe has worked in Qatar for five years and more worrying than the World Cup was the immediate issue of pay.<\/font><\/p>\n“Qatar is very expensive,” he told AFP before adding that he earned 1,200 Qatari Riyals ($330, 290 euros a month).”Here, no good.”<\/font><\/p>\nGanesh Neelakantan, a senior sports reporter with local magazine Doha Stadium Plus, said any concerns that are now being expressed are economic rather than sporting.<\/font><\/p>\n“People are worried about their jobs. There’s a lot of expatriates here and there’s a concern that projects could be put on hold,” he said.”2022 is a real driving force for Qatar.”<\/font><\/p>\nAs if to prove his point, another worker, a Nepalese man called Dritan said on Wednesday he was not so sure workers could remain in the country if football’s greatest tournament was taken away.<\/font><\/p>\n“No World Cup, no jobs,” he told AFP.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Foreign laborers working on the construction site of the al-Wakrah football stadium, one of the Qatar’s 2022 World Cup stadiums, walk back to their accomodation at the Ezdan 40 compound after finishing work on May 4, 2015 \u00a9Marwan Naamani (AFP\/File)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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