Dhaka, July 4 -- A widely-apprehended post-Covid-19 job crisis at home, to be accompanied by moratorium on hiring foreign workers in many countries, may lead to rise in human trafficking from Bangladesh, according to migration experts.

More than 100,000 Bangladeshi expatriates have already returned home since the outbreak of coronavirus and, stakeholders say, over 1.0 million more may lose jobs in a number of destinations.

Even if the coronavirus is prevented soon, it is almost certain that job scopes in the Middle East, the largest destination for Bangladeshi workers, will shrink. Malaysia has decided not to recruit migrant workers this year and many other countries are going to follow suit, stakeholders say.

So, they apprehend, traff...