Human rights violations and exploitation of migrant workers in Qatar is something which has been extensively researched during recent years. However, a lot of these studies are focusing on specific rights violations; the functioning of the kafala-system; responsibility of actions; or economic gains of Qatar. To a lesser extent, focus have been pointed towards the structural pillars of the Qatari society and how the government is using these structures as means of controlling, and thereby exploiting, migrant workers. Thus, this thesis is striving to fill this research gap by analyzing how different structural facets have been utilized by the state of Qatar in order to control and manipulate these people. The study is working with a qualitative content analysis and is utilizing a specific branch of social harm theory deemed as work-based harm. As such, different angles of structural control are examined and how this control is implicit in worker exploitation. It is concluded that extensive control mechanisms within both political, legal, cultural and economic pillars have been used by the state of Qatar as means of exploitation.