Menuka Chauhan waited patiently in line for forty minutes in Jhapa, in the far east of the small Himalayan state. Thursday was election day in Nepal. The Nepalese woman is 70 years old and her son, like many young men and women, is abroad. In Qatar he works as a security guard. For years, jobs in the Gulf states have offered young Nepalis one of the few opportunities to earn money. And these jobs have been considered risky for years: far too often, cheap workers find themselves in dependencies and endless debt traps.
