The disconnect tletween the financial benefits for economies from a macroeconomic perspective and the welfare of the migrants themselves could be heightened by the crisis. Remittances are by their nature a support mechanism within families. Hence migrants will likely exert extra effort to keep sending the same level of renrittances to their families in the Philippines inasmuch as this is the main motivation for going abroad in the first place. From a macroeconomic perspective this could work as a slightly countervailing factor and help keep overall remittances l1ows stable despite econonric distress in the sending country where the rnigrant works. Hou''ever it is likcly that this extra effort will mean even greater sacrifices fbr the migrants abroad especially as they are already dealing with worse economic pressures due to the crisis. This can include scrimping even more on basic expenses, taking on more working hours or more haza-rdous and dillcult work, and so olt. Examples include how OFWs still sought work in conf'lict-allbcted Lebanon, Iraq and Aflhanistan despite official bans. Filipinos for instance \\ere among those driving trucks fenying supplies between Kuwait and iraq. There have already been the rvell-publicized incidents of Angelo de la Cruz, taken hostage in Iraq in 2004, and of OFWs being among those killed in a helicopter crash in Atghanistan in 2009. It is irnportant to be aware ilthis heightening discorrnect especially insofhr as the Philippine govemment has in practice paid disproportiorrate attention to overall remittance inflou,s over the conditions of the migrants underpinning these remittances. The domestic and global crisis increases pressures lbr migrants and potential migrants to opt for illegal recruitrnent, to go undocumented, and to tolerate abuses at llork. The deepening crisis creates rnore desperate conditions botlr domestically and abroad. Dorlestically even r.norc Filipincls are driven to seek r.vork overseas which could see increasing nutnbers opting to take the expedient path of illegalrecruitment with allits hazards. I\{igrants aL'eady abroad but who are displaced n-ray *s* tS,;:':: opt to go undelgrouncl and tundocurnented for lack of any better prospects in the Philippines and in the hope that nelv work opportunities r,loultl present thenxclves. Desperatiorr t0 stay at rvoi-k lreishtcned by r.lctcri()r'ui inu economic conclitions at iiotne could also drive migrants tcl tolertrte abuses and exploitation so as not to jeopardize tl-reir u,ork and the renrittances thev 25 : ":::' .,,. - :;.. -:.:::