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Time reporters traveled the route that nearly half a million Nepali migrant laborers have taken over the past decade to middle east countries like Qatar, where they have helped build the stadiums, hotels, transport systems and entertainment venues that will host fans and players for the upcoming men’s World Cup soccer championship that starts November 20._  by [Charlie Campbell/Doha, Qatar](https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell/Doha, Qatar Editor at Large Nov 23, 2022 7:57 PM UTC  Fans watch a live broadcast of the 2022 World Cup opening match between Qatar and Ecuador at the Hayya Fan Zone at Doha's Corniche promenade on Nov. 20, 2022. Fans watch a live broadcast of the 2022 World Cup opening match between Qatar and Ecuador at the Hayya Fan Zone at Doha's Corniche promenade on Nov. 20, 2022. Patricia De Melo Moreira—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlie Campbell/Doha, Qatar](https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell/Doha, Qatar Editor at Large Nov 23, 2022 7:57 PM UTC Asked why he chose to stay on the MSC Poesia, one of three huge cruise liners currently docked in Doha for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Australia fan Rob Maurich gives a straightforward reply: “Alcohol.” [Liquor is heavily restricted](https://time.com/6235017/qatar-bans-alcohol-world-cup-stadiums/) in the tiny Gulf nation, available at certain times in luxury hotels and a single official FIFA Fan Festival where beer is only sold between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. (Qatar also has one liquor store but purchases are limited to non-Muslim residents.) Cruise ships are exempt from these rules, meaning—win, lose, or tie—Maurich and his buddies can knock back cold ones into the early hours. “Particularly after the late games, you get back to the boat by 1:30 a.m., and then everyone rolls in for a few nightcaps,” he says. “We’ve had a couple of late ones!” Of course, this comes with a cost. The price of cruise ship cabins were initially advertised at around $250 per night but were being booked for over $1,000 as the tournament neared. Erik Dahdouh, a consultant from Sweden, is spending $400 a night for a tiny, windowless cabin on the albeit-luxurious MSC Europa. He’s found the entire spectacle in Doha rather underwhelming. “It’s just really empty everywhere,” says Dahdouh. “We walked back through the city and there’s nobody other than migrant workers with Argentina shirts.” FIFA and the Qatari government have spent the last 12 years insisting that meticulous preparations were being made for the first World Cup ever held in the Arab world. But scrutiny has dogged Qatar as human rights groups and much of the world’s media focus on the exploitation of migrant labor, the government’s criminalization of [same-sex relationships](https://time.com/6235503/one-love-armband-qatar-world-cup/), and uneasy questions over how a small though incredibly wealthy Gulf nation came to host the world’s biggest sporting event. “When the original bid went through, most people in the football industry thought it was laughable, that it wasn’t serious,” says Geoff Pearson, a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester whose research focuses on law and security within soccer. **Read More:** [_Thousands of Migrant Workers Died in Qatar’s Extreme Heat. The World Cup Forced a Reckoning_](https://time.com/6227277/qatar-extreme-heat-world-cup-2022/) Many fans have chosen to stay away, but those who have made the journey to Doha express a determination not to let the myriad [controversies](https://time.com/6234015/celebrities-boycotting-qatar-world-cup/) tarnish their experience, despite stifling policing, including the relentless checking of identity documents, and unpredictable regulations such as the 11th hour decision to[ ban alcohol sales outside stadiums](https://time.com/6235017/qatar-bans-alcohol-world-cup-stadiums/). It’s an uphill battle, however. “It’s very spacious, very clean, people are very friendly,” says Con Harboglou, a public servant from Melbourne who traveled to support Australia with his 18-year-old son, Joseph. “But I don’t think it’s got the spark it should, and I think there’s going to be a lot less interest and fewer fans with this World Cup, unfortunately, because of people thinking about corruption and other \[controversies\].” Around [3 million fans](https://www.goal.com/en-in/lists/top-10-most-attended-world-cups-qatar-usa/blt4c01b2c9b917f4e0#cs3c568fd8217136e8) traveled to Russia in 2018 but only 1.2 million are expected in Qatar. Still, this year’s tournament is expected to[ shatter television viewership records](https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/16/11/2022/fifa-world-cup-2022-set-to-shatter-viewership-records), with some 5 billion people tuning in from around the globe. And despite the controversy over the diminished availability of Budweiser—which pays around $75 million to be associated with the World Cup—FIFA announced it has [sold out](https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/fifa-sells-out-all-sponsorship-packages-for-the-fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-tm) all its commercial sponsorship packages. Not that traveling fans will be toasting that development. But while finding—rather than recovering from—beer has perversely been the biggest headache for many fans at this year’s tournament, it’s far from the only gripe. Guests at some expensive hotels have found they cannot watch the World Cup anywhere on the premises, since host broadcaster BeIN Sports has charged an eye-watering 100,000 Qatari riyals ($27,500) subscription fee for commercial enterprises to show games. That has meant far too many businesses do not show the games at all. “It’s a weird feeling,” says Annie Borgwardt, a dentist from Stockholm, who was at the Argentina-Saudi Arabia game on Tuesday. “You don’t feel it’s really any real life so to speak. It feels like a theme park, nothing feels genuine.” **Read More:** [_The ‘One Love’ LGBTQ Rights Armband Is Causing a Stir at the Qatar World Cup_](https://time.com/6235503/one-love-armband-qatar-world-cup/) Yet not everyone agrees with that sentiment. The Argentina-Saudi Arabia match saw the latter pull off an [upset for the ages](https://time.com/6236045/qatar-world-cup-upset-argentina-saudi/), causing an [outpouring of joy](https://time.com/6236586/arab-soccer-commentary-viral-world-cup-2022/) among much of the Arab world. Even Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, whose country had been the target of a four-year Saudi-led blockade—which ended in 2021—over its alleged support of Islamist groups around the region could be seen heartily waving a Saudi flag during the game. “The World Cup is about \[soccer\], not beer,” says Farid, 26, an Algerian who previously studied in Qatar and returned to Doha to see old friends and is supporting Morocco in the World Cup. “Why should a country be excluded just because the people don’t like alcohol?” ## “It’s not very attractive for fans” Some fans have[ shelled out over $200 for a plastic tent](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63690765) with no A/C or running water. Others have been more fortunate. Rocky Martin, 32, an engineer from Portland, Or., opted for a converted “deluxe shipping container” near the Mall of Qatar for around $200 a night, which he’s sharing with a friend. “It’s got two beds, shower, toilet, refrigerator, and air conditioning,” he says. “But I don’t anticipate spending much time there.” Meanwhile, security arrangements have lurched between overbearing and outright dangerous. Fans arriving at 9:30 p.m. for Saturday’s opening of the Fan Festival—a bleak expanse of concrete sandwiched between Doha’s imposing Interior Ministry Building and the sea—were confronted by a huge crowd that swelled outside a locked main gate, as predominantly Pakistani security guards wagged fingers at each other. Suddenly, a tiny slither in the barricade was flung open and the multitude lurched forward, steel barriers tumbling over. At least three women fell under the melee, this reporter saw, as insults and elbows were hurled from the crush. After 20 minutes of inching forward as every arrival’s “Hayya” immigration card was painstakingly checked, the wheezing mob melted into the fan-zone, brushing off the danger and indignities as Lebanese singer Myriam Fares gyrated on stage before a phalanx of dancers in golden pantaloons. “Well, that was nuts,” said a Wales fan in a bucket hat while lining up for a Budweiser afterward. “I hope we don’t have to endure that every night just to get a pint.” But far from teething problems, the situation at the Fan Festival has only deteriorated since. On Sunday, tens of thousands of fans pushed and shoved against police armed with batons and shields. “It’s very risky. People, they could die,” Hatem El-Berarri, an Iraqi who said he was working in neighboring Dubai,[ told the AP](https://apnews.com/article/womens-soccer-world-cup-sports-fifa-49ceec1190b4f6c9c656b0402cae8335). The dicey security situation is particularly concerning considering Qatar has sidestepped many traditional problems. Typically, at a World Cup, the twin security issues are policing inside stadiums and the tens of thousands of “soccer tourists,” who want to follow the team but don’t have tickets, and require fan zones and other areas to drink and socialize. But by virtue of being an expensive and ultimately unpopular destination, Qatar doesn’t have to deal with the latter. Instead, authorities appear hellbent on making unnecessary trouble, [confiscating rainbow flags and hats](https://time.com/6236242/rainbow-lgbtq-one-love-world-cup/) from fans who dare to endorse equality and inclusion. “I personally feel really let down by the authorities for basically excluding me from a World Cup, but then also telling the stories about it being ‘free from discrimination’ when I know our LGBTQ+ siblings in Qatar are suffering,” says Chris Paouros, a trans woman and chair of the Qatar Working Group for Kick It Out, an advocacy group combatting discrimination in soccer. **Read More:** [_This Is the Reality of Life for LGBTQ+ People in Qatar_](https://time.com/6234323/naser-mohamed-interview-qatar-lgbt-rights/) It’s not just LGBTQ+ fans who are staying away, though. For Europeans in particular, the entire point of a World Cup is for fans to celebrate their identity through soccer, by getting together, singing, and having a drink. “That simply isn’t going to happen, certainly not outside stadiums or in public,” says Pearson. “So it’s not very attractive for fans.” It’s not been smooth sailing at stadiums either, with curious traffic diversions and official shuttle buses frequently getting lost. “It was a bit chaotic at the Argentina game,” says Dahdouh. “In short, we were thrown around a bit. There’s \[security\] people everywhere but no one knows anything.” Maurich agrees. “It’s chaos,” he says. “The shuttles drop you much too far from the grounds and then everyone has to walk miles. We’ve resorted to getting Ubers.” Doha may have world class museums and some of the most breathtaking contemporary architecture in the world. But despite [FIFA’s protestations](https://time.com/6235332/infantino-fifa-qatar-world-cup/) to the contrary, there’s little soccer culture to speak of among ordinary Qataris, as evidenced by how quickly the Al Bayt Stadium emptied after Ecuador scored in the[ host’s opening match](https://time.com/6235113/qatar-world-cup-2022-kick-off/). This is frankly an aberration across the region. (Iranian fans, by contrast, stayed to the bitter end of their 6-2 demolition by England.) Ultimately, the most boisterous fans on display in Doha are migrant workers from South Asia and Africa, decked out in England, Germany, and (until Tuesday) Argentina shirts. Though with tickets costing in the ballpark of $200, the sad reality is very few will actually get to a game. “No, I’m too busy,” says Ghanian taxi driver Jonathan Apiah, when asked if he’ll get to watch the Black Stars play. He gestures to the picture of his wife and daughter back home on his smartphone background. “I have to work.” ## Transcript The winner to organize the 22. FIFA World Cup Qatar. The hosting an event of this size requires a lot of separate new stadiums, state-of-the-art training facilities and a lot more kind of exceed 50 degrees with humidity. The 2022 World Cup kicks off in November 5 months later than usual. Spare players and fans the worst of the gulf scorching summer heat. Qatar has been 10 years and two hundred billion dollars preparing for these games a building boom. And one of the world's hottest places and it relied on a global supply chain of Migrant workers from the Philippines Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Desperate enough to work in any conditions. Here or Surrender, no. More Chaplet of Divine Mercy. honey, because some of us, I want someone by Cher. McDonald's. I know I need a happy like when I got it. Hey buddy, love you. Why do people yawn? Montauk. What time, Alabama? Comerica Theatre. Play Yoshi like Morgan. This one's underground, five levels. What does it feel like to see these photos? I would like to say, happy happy happy. Like all workers headed for the gulf surrender tamang, passed a health screening before he left Nepal. He was hired as a construction worker on a luxury complex in downtown Doha. It was one of many such projects that sprang up in the rush to prepare for the 2022 games in the equivalent to $400 a month and spent nearly all of it home. But I can see why you're proud. It's an amazing structure. Add me to take my boo by chambliss South possible. Negative. AutoZone. When was pilate the boys? Have we had the tiniest. Pakistani video Gana. 1911 Livonia. Ave And Qatar Sorento suffered headaches and dizzy spells, clear signs of heat stress. When his job site posters emphasized, the need to stay hydrated but he had to pay for his own water. And some days when he was working high up on scaffolding, he would avoid drinking so we would have to make trips up and down to the bathroom. When he got too sick to work, his employer sent him home. By the time he arrived in Kathmandu, both his kidneys have stopped functioning the result of heat exposure and chronic dehydration. According to his doctor, Now, 31, he will likely be on dialysis for the rest of his life. The cheap aerial system. Holy year are also before they endured to the services and still we find lots of patients returning with kidney failure to our country. Presently around. 600% are on dialysis at Kidney Center in different branches of Nepal. 10% of the patients who are on dialysis Adult Center, call return The climate is getting hotter and this feeling of kidney failure, becoming more intense is ready to take care of the building. That is his patience. Are golf will remain the same attitude, no responsibility. Aren't they were intense? Something has to be done. Public Health. Experts, warn that chronic kidney disease could become a major health epidemic for outdoor workers as a planet continues to warm and migrant workers are especially vulnerable. Heat is killing workers, but officials in Qatar, rarely acknowledged its role death, certificates record an unusually high rate of what is simply called. Cardiac Arrest among those young. Seemingly healthy men have left home in search of work. So we saw a statistic from 2012 to 2020. There is 571, Nepali workers who died in Qatar, writing caracara, Stoneleigh will not Define. Any other languages are what may be the cause of death, the death of death of a particular person. There should be some antecedent and the contributors that was not mentioned in the middle of the death certificate. Our body. Can I claim it dies? If the temperature is more than 40 degrees, Centigrade the person will have some sort of heat-related complication. Flights from Kathmandu to Doha have increased substantially over the last decade, most months have about 150 flights on this route. In the years since to render left. Qatar conditions have actually improved from any laborers, we asked a construction company that he worked for about on-site heat labor protections, but they did not reply. So the Show the World Cup has accelerated, the International Labour Organization, along with heat scientists were divided to Qatar to study the impact of heat and humidity on worker Health. The result was legislation that increase the window of summer days and which work hours are restricted. It also expanded the midday summer work fan by 2 hours. Another Innovation is the use of a relatively new measurement that combined standard temperature and humidity to determine what is called a wet bulb Globe. Temperature Index, this measurement is essential to protecting outdoor workers because humidity impact the body's ability to sweat and the school down. when on the wet-bulb temperature index these conditions which is 32.1 and the third key measure from this legislation is that all out of workers, must undertake an annual health screening Qatar has eight stadiums ready for the soccer matches spread out across Doha. We toured Lucedale, the largest of them, which will host the final game of the 2022 World Cup. Although much criticism has been aimed at Qatar because of World Cup construction. The workers building the football stadiums. I've actually had some of the safest construction jobs in the last decade here and the new regulations have them prove them even more You can see. Today, this is a complete the stadium with air conditioning and it's fine when you're building. It is not, it feels almost as hot inside. This is outside every year. There are Lessons Learned every year, the science behind it, progresses and the authorities. Responsible for defining, those timings begin to understand the effect of heat on the workforce and on anybody being outdoors, enough time and adjust accordingly rights organization. Stay the thousands of Migrant workers have died since. Qatar was awarded the rights to host the World Cup. However, very few are tied to the stadiums in part. This is because the construction has been managed by the government, which is in, for stringent worker protection regulations, including for the private subcontractors working here. Contractors try to play dumb every Samoan. So their arms up every summer and say, oh, it's summer working hours again and we have to explain that. Yes, it is and you're a professional licenses. If I contract in the state of Qatar and those of the ministry of Labour, Ministry of Labour reported nearly 400, violations of the new heat protection policy for outdoor workers, reports from local Clinic show that emissions for heat stress have actually dropped by more than half from last summer. Indicating that the new rules may be working. How far is the most advanced in terms of legislation when it comes to keep heat regulations much easier to slow things down or even something completely? When we see things getting out of hand. It's much easier to do that now. And vile things in before, people are pushed beyond the system is. It's a very tough battle against private contractors there against the clock. They've been paid money to finish, they have liabilities on professional Indemnity. I need to finish the work and sometimes they do it. Regardless of course we needed government permits to visit all construction sites including this privately-run work site near the sale. Officials from the ministry of Labour. We're there and workers spoked with only in the presence of their supervisors. So how have you been told? The Kinks as workers here and Doha. What would you tell if you had a cousin coming from the Paul to work in Doha, what would you tell him to prepare for the Heat? Marinara by, I went to school with baking soda, take a lot of money. Is it easy to follow these rules? Your advice? Is it easy? The games will go on, but they leave behind questions about just how much the world's migrant labor force should be asked to sacrifice as wealthy Nations pursue Perpetual growth in a warming world. the World Cup is not the Finishing Line This between everybody recognizes that this is a longer-term and ever and it will take time to build The Government of Nepal is conflicted when it comes to demanding better conditions from the wealthy Nations, that helped deliver nearly a third of Nepal's GDP each year. Ramen Shop, Kota is a Nepali journalist who has been investigating labor conditions for Nepal's overseas, migrant workers. So, I mainly writing about the migrations and the displacement, you know, you make people away and 2, mg in teaspoons to go by writing this issue. yo, someone we spoke with the group of men who are where the difficult working conditions in the Gulf, but most still plan to go, Malaysia. How do you spell 7 + 51? 108. back in Kathmandu Surendra, who once dreamed of watching the world cup from a stadium in Qatar is instead just trying to stay healthy China Wok, Let me guess someone else. I will keep and anyone see a human Ma? But I'm kidney disease. How much they can't? You guys are going to Downey Park Produce hours in Longview. Lottery online. I had a big sign. Are you dumb? The mother garbage anniversary. 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