Not all buildings abandoned by locals end up housing migrants, like in Umm Al Quwain.

The small village of Al Marjan has been literally swallowed by the desert. Buildings are buried in sand—it's even made its way inside them. Though locals have a superstition that djinn are to blame for it all.

For some reason, the village was enclosed with a wire fence, but on one side it's completely buried under sand, and on the other they just stuck a gate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PS. If you ever end up going, there's an excellent coffee shop nearby. I honestly wasn't expecting to stumble upon a specialty café in the middle of nowhere.