Labor exploitation remains economically profitable throughout the world. Companies and individual entrepreneurs attempt to utilize available labor and increase productivity at the lowest possible cost. In this context, business leaders support increased migration and the availability of cheap labor. Demand for cheap labor and growing economic disparities within and between countries have led to the exploitation of vulnerable populations, particularly women and children. Rebecca Surtees (2003) notes that the migration of Indonesian workers within the country and internationally was exacerbated after the 1997 economic crisis and led to violations of human and labor rights. trafficking but there is a lack of suggestions or possible deterrents to the exploitation of these women and children. Citing Ford, Surtees points out that remittances from female migrant workers to Indonesia increased in 1999 to three hundred million US dollars. She notes that women are the primary targets of forced economic migration, in part because they are considered more docile than men and contribute efficiently to household economies. Forced economic migration is not a phenomenon unique to Indonesia. It occurs globally and is especially prevalent in countries where the rule of law and strong institutions are not readily available. Labor laws in these places are substandard, and enforcement agencies are compliant, corrupt, and/or participating in exploitative labor practices. Domestic servitude of migrant workers and the abuses associated with it are highly visible and often practiced openly in many places. For the exploiters, the life of a migrant worker has little... middle of paper... these women allow this trade to continue. There is no end in sight to the illegal trafficking of women, as well as migration. The money earned by these migrant workers, in addition to corruption and cultural acceptance, ensures the longevity of human trafficking. Despite the importance of this issue for women's and migrants' rights, I believe that this document simply reiterates what is already known without the data having to support it. on. Women are exploited and abused around the world in numbers that are certainly not accurately documented. I believe more literature should focus on the socioeconomic structure of these countries and prevention addressed at the grassroots level. It is easy for us to judge the perceived “exploitation” of a family selling their children as domestic labor for a family in Germany, but we fail to understand what would happen to the same family if this was not an option.