Migrants' woes in Dubai worker camps

There are two sounds you cannot escape in Dubai: the call to prayer ringing out from the city's mosques five times a day and the 24-hour clunking and grinding of construction.

The city is home to some of the most ambitious buildings in the world: the tallest tower block; the world's first seven-star hotel.

There are even plans to build a ski-slope in the middle of the desert state.

But there is little glamorous about the building industry itself.

Staffed mainly by South Asian migrant workers, it is a 24-hour operation, run from specially-built labour camps.

I heard a lot of things about Dubai, about how great it was. But when I came here, I hated it

Avdesh, Dubai worker