The increasingly mobile work force, freedom of movement within the European Union and the global economic disparities, act as driving factors for high levels of migrants who, without adequate protection from illegal recruitment practices and the abuse by unscrupulous employers, risk becoming victims of trafficking...The research in Estonia and Lithuania focused on recruitment practices and exploitation in a broader sense, while the research in Finland and Sweden focused on specific sectors of work: the restaurant and cleaning sectors in Finland, and the restaurant sector and the berry picking industry in Sweden. The findings in the country reports reflect the fact that practices of recruitment and exploitation differ in the four countries, as does the level of awareness of the phenomenon.