Base-town club workers stay trapped because leaving means deportation

Evidence

Most of the women don’t know Korean, and they’re illegal if they leave the bar, Valeria said. Durebang can provide some legal assistance and, in some cases, financial help. “We cannot do anything” about their visa status, said Youngnim, who had joined our group. So if they leave a club, she said, they’re likely to be deported or put in an immigration jail. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 512

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to coercive labor control via immigration status — parallels the diamond-bourse and extralegal-market dynamics where reputation or legal standing is the leash.