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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by eschulz on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:31AM (#38129360)
I'm concerned this is going to further facilitate the exploitation of unskilled labor in these countries by the business class. I saw something online a few years ago about foreign workers in Kenya being treated much worse than their Kenyan peers (they were working in construction). Do you think this is a valid concern?
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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by boeingUH60 on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:35AM (#38129426)
They don’t need foreign workers. Locals are already exploited enough because labor laws are lax or non-existent. I can tell many stories of white-collar workers being treated like trash, talk less of unskilled labor.

This will just continue the status quo until we find a solution to the exploitation.

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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by doublerabbit on Friday November 03, 2023 @10:33AM (#38129408)
Yes. It's exactly what the UK is doing by shipping illegal immigrants to Rwanda.

Who will probably now be sent off to Kenyan camps, one could speculate.

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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by Maken on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:03PM (#38130719)
It can also work in the opposite direction: legal immigrants can bargain for better wages and report abuses to the authorities, while illegal immigrants are under the constant thread of being reported and kicked out of the country.
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