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Here is the scary side of women in the Caribbean. There are women in caribbean overseas in the love
industry. The fourth highest number in the world, after Thailand, Brazil and the Philippines. Approximately 10% of the
500-600 visas issued to Dominican nationals from the Netherlands each year are for love labor. Caribbean ladies are trafficked
to Spain, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands. The main concentrations of sold hot caribbean women working abroad are
in Austria, Curacao, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Italy, the Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela and
the West Indies. The majority of trinidad and tobago women report two main objectives for being in the love industry
abroad: those with children said it was a financial necessity to feed and raise their children; and those without children
said it was to buy a home for their parents. For most of the guyanese girls, the husband, father or boyfriend accepted that
they travel without ever clarifying exactly what king of job would be performed. And it was usually the husband, father or
boyfriend who would receive the remittances from the guyanese dating. The average age of aruba women when they make their
first trip abroad is between 21 and 28. The average education level was completion of primary school. Some of the women
who returned to the Dominican Republic were deported by the police. Some st maarten girls found a way to escape from the traffickers
and returned, with the help of friends. Many trafficked women cannot return home because they do not have the financial means;
they have no savings, are drug or alcohol-dependent, or are in prison. Most of the trafficked women said if they had known
their fate, they would never have gone. Only a minority of the women was able to save money to bring back home with them.
Some bermuda women who returned after sending money are welcomed home. Their new clothes and jewelry, or their family’s
new or improved house was an advertisement for other young women to go abroad.
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