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Israel Gives Chinese Migrant Workers the Pay—and Dignity—They Don’t Get at Home

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Israel Gives Chinese Migrant Workers the Pay—and Dignity—They Don’t Get at Home
Chinese workers look on as an Iron Dome anti-missile projectile intercepts a rocket that was fired from Gaza, above the city of Ashkelon, Israel, on May 4, 2019. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Patricia Adams
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Lawrence Solomon
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Commentary

As Israeli missiles streak overhead and sirens wail across construction sites in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, thousands of Chinese migrant workers are making a remarkable choice: they are staying put.

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Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
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