I'll bite.............yes!
The risks of going to such places are made clear.............still you see the sickening heartwrenching sight of the huge lines in the OFW queues at Manila Airport, so ignorant - perhaps.
However the latter one is more to the point - "desperate". Simple as that, the choices are there, and they choice is to take that risk. Working as for one example in the blistering heat, running into the road in-between traffic to scrub the crossings to make them clean. Go to Dubai and you will see this one example of immigrant worker.
Argue with that if you want, I would say anyone who would leave their country to work in such a
must be to some extent desperate.