The politics of the North in this context serves the purpose to restrict the rights and possibilities of migrants so that they can be kept in an almost indefinitely exploitable position. Increasingly, in the centers of North America and Europe, a large informal sector with extremely miserable working conditions is appearing next to the multinational corporations. This is where women are exploited in more than one sense - as domestic servants, in prostitution or as wives. The non-recognition of reasons to flee that are specific to women serves to illegalize women and forces them into a status in which they have no rights. This forces them to offer their own resources to extremely low wages.
Tourism serves to satisfy needs.
In the needs-satisfying sector there is a demand for activities and skills which are traditionally attributed to women and, following patriarchal patterns, are not valued much. It is a sector of the economy with a strikingly high percentage of waged working women and at the same time a sector in which a large number of migrants are employed. The tourism sector is a small-scale model of the hierarchical and gendered division of labor in society. A small part of the population enjoys the right to travel freely and affords itself unlimited mobility and freedom of movement as tourists. The WTO and the OECD advise notably countries of the South to invest in tourism.