ABSTRACT
A huge number of women are currently participating in labor, inside and outside their countries. This has attracted world community and scholars in various fields and has been constructed as a social issue in need of immediate solution. Women’s movement and their participation in various activities has been identified as immoral and linked with illegal activity of transaction of human beings. This linkage cannot be separated from a recent manifestation of the North/South, East/West divide. Thus virtually anything that disturbs this divide is seen as illegal. Thus, women’s movements and participation in global economy has been constructed as a threat to national and global security, a construction that has created moral panic.
