An oversimplification Doloros - yes the working conditions are hard and the pay terrible (by our standards) - but they are still better than what they have at home.
These workers are not leaving NZ, they are leaving Myanmar, Bangladesh etc where there is little hope. At least there, they earn enough to send their kids to school, maybe buy a house etc and provide their families with a chance for a better life.
And not all host families are terrible.
This seems like a somewhat similar argument to apartheid in South Africa i.e. best standard of living in Africa though.
On the reports we get in the western media, the kafala system seems rife with abuse. Seems to be a large proportion of those indentured people being over-worked, under-paid, abused, working in life threatening conditions, exploited and beaten.
While some might be flourishing in this system, the volume of negative reports brings in to question the legitimacy and running of the scheme.
I get that it's more nuanced than most thunk, but surely you agree it is overly repressive of fundamental human rights?
Edit: Yes, off topic. I'll pull my head in.