u/Sepia

I get your point and fully agree in principal, and my knowledge about Senegal is next to zero. The point I want to make is that many of these workers are facing harsh economic conditions at home with little prospects, and they are lured by false promises. But that's just my opinion based on many reports I've read and a couple of first-hand reports by people in my wider environment who work for NGOs the field. But my experience with this stuff is zero, so I may be mistaken.

One recent study (posted in this comm by another user not long ago, see here) concludes that Russia will increasingly face financial crisis, it will become poorer and more backward, but there will likely be no output collapse. This is in line with many other economic studies on the topic that have emerged in the last couple of years.