A rights watchdog has launched a scathing attack on a motion tabled in Bahrain’s lower house to ban migrant bachelors from living in residential areas, saying that it amounted to creation of ghettos.
“This motion is discriminatory and promotes derogatory and racist attitudes towards migrant workers. To relocate labour camps to industrial areas, where few Bahrainis would choose to live, appears as the first step towards building a ghetto where migrant workers will be segregated from Bahraini residents,” Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) Vice-President Nabeel Rajab yesterday said in a statement, a copy of which was sent to Gulf News.
Citing concerns about the erosion of traditional social values, several deputies have called for the relocation of migrant bachelors away from Bahraini families.
Their allegations culminated last week when Islamist deputy Nasser Al Fadhala said that many migrant bachelors used their houses to make alcohol, run prostitution rings or to rape children and housemaids.
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