It is not impossible, and I know that their financial situation is bad. A small number of Somali women used to go to work there as maids, but the question is: Were there Somali maids in the Gulf in the eighties? Did the government at that time do that? No, for me, and that is why I said that the first term of President Hassan Sheikh is the first time that Somali women have been allowed to work there as maids, but I completely reject the idea of normalizing this idea as if it were a natural matter. Something for us like other communities, because I know that as a tribal community we will not allow our women to go to work. There are no guarantees what will happen to her. The other point is that I don't like the "victim" mentality and the portrayal of Somalis as oppressed and the generalization based on a few of them. Speaking of workers, there was a period when Ethiopians were the most dangerous nationalities in terms of crimes in Saudi Arabia, and this led to the Saudis themselves refusing to bring in Ethiopian maids, and this actually led to a decline in their acceptance and thus there were no jobs. What did they do? They were impersonating Somali nationality at that time, and indeed many of them were accepted to work there. Also, forgery of passports was widespread in Somalia at one time because we were without a government, and for this reason I believe that most of the “Somali” maids are in fact of other nationalities
أدت كثرة الحوادث التي تقع من بعض العمال الإثيوبيين في المملكة إلى عزوف المواطنين عن قبول العاملات الإثيوبيات مما جعل الأخيرات ينتحلن الجنسية الصومالية.
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