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02199aam a2200349Ki 4500 001 579866C40CF611EA99B9112E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191122010114 008 150820s2015 scu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1514646927 020 $a 9781514646922 035 $a (OCoLC)918985019 040 $a FMG $b eng $e rda $c FMG $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IOM $d SILO 043 $a aw----- 082 04 $a 892.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi, $e author. 245 14 $a The migrant report / $c Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. 264 1 $a [North CHarleston, South Carolina] : $b [CreateSpace Publishing Platform], $c [2015] 300 $a 253 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Crime in Arabia ; $v [bk. 1] 520 $a "Against the glittering high-rises of the capital, Manu, a recent arrival from Nepal, drips his days away on a construction site, cut off from the world outside the labor camp. His sister despairs of finding him among the thousands of migrant workers flooding into the Arabian Gulf to build the country's infrastructure. Police captain Ali's hopes of joining the elite government forces are dashed when his childhood deformity is discovered. His demotion brings him face to face with the corruption of labor agencies and also Maryam, an aspiring journalism student, who is unlike any local girl he has ever met. In danger of flunking out of university, Maryam is searching for an original story that will appease her professor and keep her family's machinations for marriage in check. Can the unlikely trio fit the pieces of the puzzle together before agency thugs get to Manu, the burgeoning labor agitator? 650 0 $a Construction industry $z Middle East $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Middle East $x Social conditions $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Construction industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875964 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 800 1 $a Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi. $t Crime in Arabia. 941 $a 1 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191122025242.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=579866C40CF611EA99B9112E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IOMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search