This document summarizes a persuasive speech using Monroe's Motivated Sequence about the exploitation of migrant workers in Qatar for the construction of stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. It discusses how migrant workers from countries like India and Nepal have their passports confiscated upon arrival in Qatar and are subjected to poor working conditions, late or unpaid wages, and lack of rights to organize. It argues that while labor protection laws have been passed, they are not adequately enforced. It urges the audience to take action by signing petitions to demand governments protect human rights.

1. Monroe’s Motivated Sequence:
Persuasive Speech by: Royce Morales
PSCI 4820.001 – DeMeritt – 3/8/15
Topic: Migrant Workers
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that migrant workers are being oppressed
and ill-treated by Qatar in order to complete the 2022 World Cup Stadium and other
countries throughout the world.
Thesis Statement: It is unnecessary to exploit migrant workers towards the completion
of a major construction projects, and that they should be more adequately accounted for.
ATTENTION
Opening statement of interest / speaker credibility:
The world we live in today is modernizing rapidly; countries that barely had electricity
twenty years ago are now contemporary states. Have you ever considered what kind of
workforce it takes to build a technologically advanced metropolitan area? What about a
metropolitan area in a country that’s ruled by an authoritarian monarchy? Qatar is such an
example: a country built on oil wealth distributed among a small population with a
record-breaking gross domestic product per capita. Who is going to provide the labor,
take out their trash, or construct their skyscrapers?
Motivate audience interest:
Migrant workers are exploited to work on such projects in Qatar, especially on the 2022
World Cup Stadium.
Orient Listeners:
First, I would like to discuss the importance of protecting migrant worker’s rights, and
shedding light on the atrocities committed. Secondly, how you can take action against
migrant worker abuses and how to learn of them. And last, what the positive outcomes of
preserving migrant worker’s rights and how this will enhance the future of labor.
Transition:
I’ll start off by explaining the obligation of protect migrant worker’s rights.
NEED
Illustration:
Many countries in the world lack migrant worker freedoms, including the United States,
especially those migrant farmers. Most of us here are from Texas, and we should know

2. how important migrant workers are: they build our homes, cook our food and harvest our
crops, and they can be found all throughout the service industry.
Ramifications:
The obligation that corporations and countries should have with regards to human rights
include: not restricting their traveling, providing adequate living conditions and food,
give them more reasonable pay, and better hours.
In Qatar alone, only 10%, or 200,000 people are Qatari nationals, or citizens of Qatar,
while there are over 1.4 million migrant workers from Pakistan, India, Nepal, and other
countries.
There are around 85 million migrant workers in the world today, 13 million of which
have an irregular or undocumented status.
Some countries, such as Qatar, have laws such as Qatar’s Law 14 of 2004 which states
that private sector companies oblige to give their workers paid vacation, however their
passports are taken upon arrival.
Furthermore, their wages are constantly late, working conditions are extremely poor, and
they are restricted from organizing demonstrations or collective action, some of the
workers called it “modern day slavery”.
Pointing:
However, labor protection laws are passed, and these pieces of legislation are supposed to
defend and benefit the migrant workers, but they are never adequately enforced.
Transition:
Maybe now you can better understand the commitment we have to defending these
people’s rights. Qatar is just one example, migrant workers are oppressed all over the
world, even when they are responsible for the jobs no one else wants.
SATISFACTION
Statement of Solution:
Now I’m going to show you how you can make a difference.
Explanation:
First, be consciously aware of what you’re reading. Be able to distinguish the difference
between factual information and opinionated journalism. Checking the websites of
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are some good places to start.
Second, there are many ways you can become actively involved. From simply donating a
small or large donation, or even attending a local event of protest. You can even
volunteer for a Human Rights organization, for an utmost dutiful cause.

3. Third, by far the easiest, and most effective way to make a difference is to sign a petition.
These human rights non-profit organizations write up several petitions for many countries
in the world, and demand that their governments take action to protect those whose
human rights are being violated, which in turn are then mailed to the government of that
country.
Meeting Objections:
This petition addresses the lack of respect for Human Rights for migrant workers in
Doha, Qatar, and the inadequate implementation of the government’s labor laws.
Transition:
Actively participating in the protection of people’s rights can be practically effortless:
donate a dollar or electronically sign something online. However, to take the next step—
to volunteer or to make a career out of this kind of work requires responsibility, but
passion more than anything.
VISUALIZATION
Positive:
Making a career through advocating for human rights is not only concerned with people
in a specific region, but with people everywhere, it is something universal. You’re not
only helping those people who are being denied exist visas and vacation or even rest
time, but you’re helping their wives and children, those relatives who depend on their
father’s paycheck to survive. By having a career in this field, you see the differences in
real time, and with the help of your colleagues you can make the world a better place, and
also getting the chance to see those places.
Negative:
There are also a few caveats to making a profession in this are of work. As we saw in the
E-Team documentary, investigators risk their own lives conducting fieldwork in highly
dangerous areas to find out the truth about what really happened. The pay also may not
be the greatest, and you’ll probably end up pissing off some autocratic rulers, but they
deserve it.
Transition:
Evidently, there are many ways one can contribute to the global cause of human rights,
and the ability to stand up for those people whose voices are not allowed to be heard, is
most humbling.
ACTION
Summary:
Making a difference can be anything from signing a petition or attending a rally or even
just reading articles from experts in the area of study or organizations who investigate
crimes against humanity.

4. Here I have a petition that I have written up personally, it addresses the lack of protection
for migrant workers in Qatar, if you’d like, read it, sign it, leave it on the teacher’s desk,
and I’ll scan it, and electronically mail it to Qatar’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
Thank you.
Sources:
 International Labour Organization. Accessed 3 March 2015. http://www.ilo.org
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2014. Accessed 3 March 2015.
http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/qatar?page=1
 Chalabi, Mona. 2013. “Qatar's migrants: how have they changed the country?”,
The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/26/qatar-
migrants-how-changed-the-country
 International, Amnesty. 2014. “No extra time: How Qatar is still failing on
workers' rights ahead of the World Cup”, Amnesty International.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde22/010/2014/en/