Migrants in Jordan: How the unions plan to protect and organise them...

The capital of Jordan, Amman, is expanding fast, with new blocks of flats, new roads, and more... Migrant workers are employed everywhere, supporting the city's rapid development.

Egyptians are the largest migrant group. They work in all of the badly paid, and dangerous jobs in building, agriculture and the service industry.

Jordan also has 700,000 Iraqi refugees. More and more of them are also looking for odd jobs to survive, receiving low wages under-the-table.

The Jordanian textile export industry is also employing large numbers of migrant workers from Asia; they are working in the qualified industrialised zones or QIZs.

Unpaid back wages, failure to pay the minimum wage, confiscation of passports, forced unpaid overtime, bad housing conditions and food... Like other countries, especially in the neighbouring Gulf States, migrant workers in Jordan are being exploited and badly treated.