US Edition'Pure extortion': foreign workers face violence and exploitation in Croatia
- A 27-year-old food delivery worker from India experienced abuse twice while working in Croatia last year.
- Foreign delivery workers in Croatia report frequent attacks, some resulting in serious injuries like broken jaws and cracked ribs.
- A survey by the Institute for Migration Research found that over 60 percent of Croatians were dissatisfied with foreign workers, up from 46 percent the previous year.
- Croatia's conservative government condemned violence against foreign workers and introduced measures to improve their protection and implemented language requirements for long-term workers.
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Foreign workers, including Filipinos, face violence in Croatia
ZAGREB — When DD left his home in India for Croatia last year, he expected his food delivery work to be hard, with long hours and low pay. He did not expect to be spat at in the street.Twice last year the 27-year-old from Chandigarh was abused by groups of young people while working. Some spat at him; others shouted at him to "go back to your own country" as they tried to steal his delivery bag.For the young foreign worker, one of the tens of th…
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AlKhaleej TodayExploited and abused: Foreign workers in Croatia face violence, ‘pure extortion’
ZAGREB, Feb 16 — When DD left his home in India for Croatia last year, he expected his food delivery work to be hard, with long hours and low pay. He did not expect to be spat at in the street.Twice last year the 27-year-old from Chandigarh was abused by groups of young people while working. Some spat at him, others shouted at him to “go back to your own country” as they tried to steal his delivery bag.For the young foreign worker, one of the te…
The influx of tens of thousands of workers from Asia to overcome the exodus of the local population exposes a Croatian society unprepared for growing social tensions and acts of rejection. A young Indian deliverer, who arrived in Zagreb a year ago with the hope of a better life, has been subjected twice to [...] Read more Croatia in the face of the test of integration of its new Asian labour force appeared first on Le Singulier.
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