For the Indians who are taking this route they are not. My family is from one of those villages where immigration (documented and undocumented) to the West has

For the Indians who are taking this route they are not. My family is from one of those villages where immigration (documented and undocumented) to the West has been common since the 1970s. The ones who are truly desperate (the rural poor and working class) cannot afford to immigrate illegally to the West so they end up immigrating to the Gulf, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or South Korea to work as unskilled laborers. The only people who take these routes in Northwest India are those who area weird mix of landed (so rich as they have a high value asset that can be mortgaged) and ignorant. Oftentimes a healthy dose of "stunting" as well, because even if the guy immigrated abroad illegally, they can at least get a wedding offer now whereas before they were a NEET.