to ensure that migration is a development practice that is accountable for all migrant workers, irrespective of status. This includes low-wage migrant workers, especially women migrant workers, who may have less access to formal channels of support due to the nature of those who work in the domestic sector. Situations of wage theft tend to become more difficult in the case of female domestic workers as these experiences are usually coupled with other forms of rights violations which prevent them from seeking justice in the first place - particularly verbal and physical abuse, deprivation of basic needs such as food or of access to services such as basic healthcare or treatment. It has been long overdue for states to stop looking past migrant workers in precarious situations and have been disadvantaged by their employers. To provide access to justice for migrant workers is to require duty bearers to recognize workers beyond status. This will also further allow states to likewise look into an evidence-based approach that will determine the approximate amount that is lost by migrant workers due to wage theft. In the end, we should recognize that repatriation is a sign of the failure of access to justice. It is also a failure of SDG 16, of social inclusion: migrants will always remain the other in the repatriation story, and they can never be one of us in the destination country. WILLIAM GOIS, Regional Coordinator Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) at “The Future of Remedy for Migrant Workers in Asia” This will not only allow stakeholders to better strategize around what migrant workers need in terms of robust cross-border justice mechanisms that will allow them to claim their dues, but it will also calculate the added costs which countries of origin are shouldering for migration governance which need to be accounted for by countries of destination. As cases of wage theft against migrant workers continue to be left behind due to failing justice mechanisms, the potential for sustainable reintegration will continue to diminish. The potential for migrant workers to maximize the gained skills and knowledge from their experience in the country of destination is lost along the way as the impacts of wage theft take away their potential to achieve levels of growth or success upon their return. Migrants must be empowered with the assurance that they will not only be able to save what they have earned but with the guarantee that they will be able to bring home what they have earned. However, without this guarantee of even being able to receive what they have earned, migrants will continue to contribute to the economic growth of countries of destination. They will continue to subsidize this growth without achieving any sense of justice for themselves and will only continue to be demoralized by the systems that have failed them. As such, states and key stakeholders must come together in urgency to not only bring justice and empowerment to migrant workers but to also address the growing loss in development due to the impacts of wage theft. This loss is indicative of an inherently dysfunctional migration governance framework that needs to be overhauled into one that is inclusive, sustainable, rights-based, and just. 9