Abstract
The article is devoted to the current problem of labor migration of women in the context of the economic crisis in Kyrgyzstan in 1991-2021. The reduction of social services, unemployment, poverty, and violence against women intensified migration in the regions, a significant part of which were women. In search of a better future for themselves and their families, migration is becoming a new survival strategy for women. Many women are migrants because of the lack of a way forced to accept working and living conditions that violate their basic rights, and some of them are victims of the slave trade. For the countries of Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan, transnational slave trafficking in women is a relatively new phenomenon. As a rule, human trafficking is illegal, and it is a problem to determine the exact number of victims of human trafficking. Despite the measures taken, the problem of trafficking in human beings continues to worsen. This is due to the fact that the problem of trafficking in human beings has not had the necessary resonance among the countries of the world
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