Mapping a transregional economy through which Sudanese peasants become service migrant workers in the Middle East and accumulate debts in the process, this paper follows the life of debt among young migrant returnees in Sudan. Subsistence farmers in rural western Sudan (Kordofan), who have been dispossessed of their means of subsistence by decades of political warfare on their land, have long relied on seasonal labor migration and crop speculation to sustain their livelihood. Labor migration in particular has changed gender roles of production and debt. Women are now in charge of running the farm and of husbanding the household economy, in lieu of the absentee male household providers, who migrate to cities of the Middle East. The men migrate with the expectation of making money abroad, but with the devaluation of the regional labor economy, migrants increasingly return indebted. They also return to a debt that has been withheld during their absence from the land. The paper examines how this unfolds for Bashir who, upon returning to Kordofan after ten years in Lebanon, mortgaged his mother’s crops to pay back his debts. By indebting the family’s subsistence, the son put the families at risk, yet he also ensured their short-term resilience in an economy that validates people not by their labor-power but by their indebtability. The paper conceptualizes indebtability as a potential “credit-worthiness”, distinct from the material condition of being indebted. For peasant-migrants who labor on the fringes of a transregional economy, and who cannot survive from their land alone, indebtability has become a currency to stay relevant and valuable as economic subjects. The paper traces the migrant returnee’s debt from Sudan's present economic and political crisis following the 2019 revolution back in time, by revisiting an interregional history of expropriation of land and labor across the Red Sea. In so doing, the paper foregrounds racial capitalism as integral to a critical study of political economy in the Middle East; a region whose boundaries bend and expand when we follow the debt.