"An Agonizing Wait for a Migrant Worker’s Final Journey Home", 01 Dec 2022

When his wife asked a recruitment agent what had happened in Dubai, the agent gave a simple answer: Her husband “couldn’t wake up after sleep.” The death certificate from the United Arab Emirates attributed his demise to “heart and breath failure.”...

Mr. Yadav had turned to a series of jobs abroad, borrowing thousands of dollars to pay recruiters each time his employment contracts expired, because of the extremely limited opportunities at home...

Mr. Yadav worked as a guard at a hotel...

On the late-night family calls, he complained that he wasn’t getting enough shifts to help chip away at the mounting debt at home...