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I went to Dubai and caught a glimpse of the future
The city is strikingly rewriting the story of skilled migration.
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Dubai is the most populous of the seven territories that make up the United Arab Emirates.
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Lydia Polgreen
Ms Laureen Fredah’s migrant journey began as something of a lark.
She was living in Kampala, the biggest city in Uganda, when she heard from a friend that Emirates, the flagship airline of the Persian Gulf city of Dubai, was looking for flight attendants. The airline, part of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) nation-building project, was expanding rapidly into Africa.
