“If these [payments] had happened on time, and he had come back, this wouldn’t have happened” says wife of late migrant worker Rajiv left Kerala for Qatar in July 2015. He worked as a safety officer there until the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic led to him being made redundant in February 2020. He was found dead in his room on June 1, 2020 and according to his death certificate, the cause of his death was “acute heart failure due to natural causes.” Rajiv left behind a wife and three children, aged 13, 11 and 8. Rajiv’s wife Tania said that her husband did not tell her that he was made redundant, but she had since spoken to colleagues who had described the stress he was under as he was looking for work and attempting to obtain his end of service benefits from his former employer, on whom he was dependent for his work and residence permit. Documents showed that his employer, a major construction company in Qatar, did not pay his end of service benefits of 33,712 Qatari riyals ($9,261) until July 22, 2020, nearly five months after they made him redundant and seven weeks after his death. His wife shared that her husband didn’t have any health problems, and took care to eat healthily. “He was alone and under a lot of stress,” his wife told. “His friends were aware of his situation but he never told us the state he was in. He had told them about being unemployed and the tremendous stress he was going through. He was also applying for various jobs and was optimistic about getting one, but he was keeping all of this to himself. If these things [payments] had happened on time, and he had come back, this wouldn’t have happened. That’s what I think” She said that nobody from Qatar contacted her to ask if she would like an autopsy to be performed and said she was unaware this was a possibility. Her husband’s death had, she said, left the family in serious financial difficulty. “I am working as a nurse in a private hospital where I make around $150 a month. I don’t know how I am going to take care of my children.” 8