I think pretty much all of them are well aware that the cost of flying them to the Gulf far exceeds their savings and they won't have the funds to fly back of their own accord before their contract is up. It's not one of these trafficking situations where they've been told they've been found a nice domestic service job in the capital and they subsequently end up in an underground brothel in another country.
They have good reason to expect to have access to food and their post-deduction wages though.
> It's not one of these trafficking situations where they've been told they've been found a nice domestic service job in the capital and they subsequently end up in an underground brothel in another country.
Exactly. Honestly, it's very telling that the vast majority of migrant workers in the gulf are men. They're doing hard manual labor, in admittedly poor conditions, but that is by and large what they signed up for.
> They have good reason to expect to have access to food and their post-deduction wages though.
Agreed. And that's why the instances where they don't even receive that are so alarming and do trigger government investigations.
They have good reason to expect to have access to food and their post-deduction wages though.