knoxcollege I find your view at best naive...

There is no law saing you have to make others lives diffucult, its the pure choice of the sponsor/employer.

I agree that there is a system and that a Qatari that has lived and grown up in the system is most likely
to use it with all its facettes.
But a western manager of a institutio/company has more or less all the strings in his own hands... depending on how things are setup.

Any employer can give you a multiple exit visa in a blink of an eye, if he wants too...
A change of sponsorship can be done in less then 15min...

A lot of westeners I have dealt with and seen use the darker parts ot the system to their full advantage.