Since most of them are unable to pay back the companies that smuggled them into the country, they are forced to give their passport to the employers until they clear their debt. Without any chance of going back home, the workers live in large compounds together with their fellow countrymen, working up to 13 hours per day, seven days a week for around 400 USD per month. Iraqi photographer Hawre Khalid photographed their daily routine in Kirkuk.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker brings water to wash his clothes in the afternoon when the workers have two free hours they can spend in the garage where they live in.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- One of the workers on his bed in the shared room where he lives.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A portrait of Bangladeshi worker in his bedroom during the two hours break they have in the afternoon.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two Bangladeshi workers are sleep in their bedroom in the afternoon during the two hours break they have.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker sleep in his bedroom in the afternoon during the two hours break they have.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two Bangladeshi workers are waiting to go work cleaning the streets in the early morning.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two Bangladeshi workers clean the Shorja street.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker cleans the Shorja street in the centre of Kirkuk.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two Bangladeshi workers pray after work in the garage were they live in Kornish street in the centre of Kirkuk.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two Bangladeshi workers prepare to work in the morning outside the garage where they live in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers wait to go to work cleaning the streets in the morning in the garage where they live in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers in the trash car set out to clean the streets of Kirkuk.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A bird cage inside a room of Bangladeshi workers in the garage in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers joke during their break in the afternoon.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers take a shower in the afternoon during their two hours break.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker brushes his hair after taking a shower in the garage where they live in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker talks to his family via Skype in the garage in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker sleeps on his bed during the two hours afternoon break.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker cleans the street at night in the Iskan neighborhood.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers clean the street at night in Iskan neighborhood in north Kirkuk.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers waiting in line to get dinner in the garage where they live in Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers get dinner in the garage where they live in Kornish street.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A portrait of Abdulla with the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) shirt in his bedroom.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker brushes his hair after taking a shower in his bedroom during the two hours break he has in the afternoon.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Clothes drying in front of the garage in Kornish street.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Two workers joke before going to work in front of the garage where they live.
11/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A Bangladeshi worker prepares the fish to cook for dinner in the garage where they live on Kornish street.
10/10/2014 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Bangladeshi workers are getting ready to go to work cleaning the streets.