Overseas Filipino

Helping distressed OFWs bounce back TO WHAT extend are you willing to earn a living? Ronald Espiritu, a 33-year-old oversea Filipino worker (OFW) based in Miami, Florida endured hunger, fatigue, and worse, a measly salary—way below the minimum wage—just to make a living, according to a report in Pinoy-OFW.com. Along with a group of fellow Filipino workers, Espiritu may have had never seen daylight outside W South Beach hotel, Lincoln Road’s Quattro Italian restaurant, and Admiral’s Cove country

Philippines is primarily concerned on the issue of Filipino workers leaving the country for temporary work, which results into the loss of human resources. As reported, a number of professionals, technical and skilled workers and even craftsmen are found to be working overseas. The said trend of Filipinos working overseas started since middle of seventies (1970’s) after the Labor Code of the Philippines was passed. Since then, the numbers of Filipino workers opting to work abroad continue to increase

impact on Philippines economy thru the help of Filipino modern heroes also known as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). Filipino seafarers are competitive among others due on reliable and hardworking personality. Despite of that, maritime industry provides a lot of challenges on each individual which is part of the industry and it is entitled as one of the most critical jobs around the world. This study focusses on the challenges may encountered of Filipino seafarers on board in order to propose work-life

This literature review starts with a survey of theories of international migration, the emergence of Filipino Labour Diaspora, focusing on the role of the Philippine state. Consequently, it examines the role of Canadian state in attracting FLCMs to work as domestic workers in Canada. Lastly, it examines the role of the market in perpetuating gender role and victimization in labor diaspora. 1. Theories of International Migration Theories of international migration studies often neglect the role

Introduction When Filipinos hear the word ‘seaman’ or seafarer’, we generally have a constructed stereotype to judge that person from the said line of work. Usually, they are regarded as well-off, an owner of a rather big house in the neighborhood, and of the upper middle class. In other words, seafarers are highly regarded in a typical Filipino community to the extent that they are misjudged by many just because of their nature of work and this becomes a ground for social alienation

The Philippines is located in the South-East region of Asia, this region consists of other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and others. The Philippines would be categorized as a developing country in stage three of the demographic transition model. With a falling birth rate of 24.24 per every 1000 people, with a low death rate of 4.92 per every 1000 people. With a population of 107.668.231 as of 2014, their median age is 23.5 years of age resulting in a very young population

Political Environment To begin, the political environment of the Philippines should firstly be addressed. In the modern day Philippines, they have established a multi-party democracy which has an elected president along with its legislature. Their democracy is set up exactly the same as ours in the United States. They have the framework of where the president is both the head of state as well as the government in general. Similarly their system is composed of the three independent branches which

1. What were the motivations behind US overseas imperialism? Numerous motivating factors contributed to US overseas imperialism, but the fundamental underlying cause was the fact that powerful men within the US government, military and business strata craved power, expansion, wealth, and most of all, world dominance. It began subtly, as prominent businessmen like Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan began to realize that US consumership alone would not sufficiently sustain the growing industries, volume

Nowadays, lots of Filipino people choose to work abroad. Some are in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar, and other foreign countries. But the question is, why they choose to work abroad than staying in their own country? There are 11 main reasons why several Filipinos choose to work abroad, these 11 reasons was made by Fritz Natividad on November 19, 2012. Other sources like books, magazines, newspapers and lots of sites in the internet have different numbers of reason. Due to lots of reasons, only 4 reasons

Filipinos like to be addressed formally with their titles such as Attorney, Doctor, Professor, Director, etc. to convey respect for authority, status or position (Purnell, 2013). Parents and elders are expected to be addressed in a respectful way meaning they should never be addressed on a first name basis (Purnell, 2013). The use of the word “po” or “ho” are usually used when ending sentences to show a sign of respect (GAC, 2017). In a traditional Filipino family, the head of the family and main