THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, June 12: Nearly 60 young Malayali women from Kozhikode's poor coastal villages have returned from the Gulf countries with the children of no-man's-land after being sexually used and discarded, according to newspaper reports. The issue has landed the local authorities in a fix.

The women were recruited and sent by agents to various Gulf countries promising jobs as housemaids, ayahs or janitresses. But some became temporary wives, many turned sex slaves, and some ended up with Malayali touts feeding the Gulf's flesh trade - to be passed from brothel to brothel, and in some cases, Gulf country to country, the New Indian Express reported today.

Two girls died of AIDS.

According to the paper, two dozen kids born to these women from their Gulf liaisons are growing up without nationality and the law wants to deport them. "These women get the kids fathered by Arabs mentioned in their own passports as Arab nationals, when they are forced to return. They believe this would help their kids to return abroad when they grow up. But few Arab countries entertain such claims on their citizenship, and the law says all overstaying foreign nationals should be deported," the paper said quoting City Police Commissioner Sanjeev Patjoshi, who is also the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO).

Police have already issued notices to two women warning them against letting their "foreign national" children overstay. The women had been temporarily married to a UAE and an Iranian national respectively after they reached UAE to be housemaids. They were discarded soon after the first bore two sons, and the second, two daughters, the paper said.

"It may not be easy for them to get Indian citizenship after so many years. But we can't arrest and deport them either, not when the countries of which they are supposed to be nationals won't accept them," the Commissioner said. The mothers, both struggling to survive, have been asked to approach the UAE and Iranian embassies in New Delhi and to get the kids their nationalities. "I have also sought advice of the Ministry of External Affairs," the Commissioner said. The police in the nearby Malappuram district have also identified at least seven such cases.

According to New Indian Express , it's not the Arabs, but Keralites who exploited many. According to one married woman, an agent took her to Muscat promising a cleaning woman's job and convincing her that that they need to behave as man and wife to avoid visa problems. He put her up in a building in Muscat and raped her before beginning to bring in local customers.

"I know no language but Malayalam and could seek no help. I was sent back after seven months when I contracted a bad disease. My husband said we should not complain to anyone," she said.

The paper said in spite of everything, illiterate or semi-literate women from these parts still queue up for their passports to escape poverty and pass on the copies to the many travel agencies for Gulf recruitments, ready to do any job abroad.

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