Women in the Philippines

Trending Worldwide: Korean Wave Rosanna Danica B. Maguad TRENDING WORLDWIDE: KOREAN WAVE Unlike in the past, Philippine Media is now a combination of various Asian entertainments. It imports TV series and movies from neighboring Asian countries. Imported movies are then dubbed in Filipino and streamed in our country. ABS-CBN, one of the top TV stations in the country, started to explore foreign TV series last 2003. This was “Meteor Garden,” a Taiwanese drama series. Because of the boom of the

Socioeconomic factors Enmeshed in the reliance of remittances, particular socioeconomic and environmental factors contribute to the impetus of migration and trafficking. While profitable employment and increased opportunities abroad serve as “pull” factors, there are many “push” factors that motivate migrants, including economic and political stability, government corruption, illiteracy, civil unrest, low food production, and internal armed conflict (Davy, 319) [WHILE ALL OF THESE SERVE AS PREDICTIVE

The philippines is a country located in Southeast Asia in the Western Pacific made up of 7,107 islands. “The entire landmass of the Philippines is made up islands, making it the second-largest archipelago in the world (“Huffington Post”). Manila the capital city of the Philippines is ranked as number one with the highest population density in the world. With a growth rate of 2 percent every year it is also known as one of the fastest growing countries. The philippines and the United States have had

interactive essay is about my family friend Tiffany Ramseur from the Philippines. The Philippines is a Southeastern Country in the Western Pacific comprising more than 7,000 islands. Its capital, Manila, is famous for its waterfront promenade and centuries-old Chinatown, Binondo. Intramuros, a walled city in colonial times, is the heart of Old Manila. The Philippines population is 100,998,376. The Politics of the Philippines take place in an organized framework of a presidential, representative

schools and roads for the Philippines, American businesses heavily infiltrated the economy and left many Filipinos jobless. Having to survive with a ruined economy and lack of freedom from foreign powers were some of the factors that pushed the Filipinos to come to America. Since they were Filipino Nationals, they were able to travel to and from America

and how the intricacies of free-trade or globalization impacts the lives of women- their personhood, their families and their communities. The research involved about eight (8) Asian countries – India, Hongkong, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Langka, Indonesia, South Korea and the Philippines with poor women who are very much involved and working in the fishing, agriculture, manufacturing/industrial sectors as well as migrant women workers. The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) took the lead in the research

Domestic and caregiving work dates back 150 years and was/still performed by racialized women migrants in Canada. Care-giving is often viewed as ‘low-skilled’ work thus women especially from South-East Asia are exploited financially, psychologically as well as physically. One of the ways that many of these women have the opportunity to gain Canadian Permanent Residence/Citizenship status is through the Live-in Caregiver Program thus leaving their own families behind. The global care chain looks at

Location      The Republic of the Philippines in the western Pacific Ocean, made up of the Philippine Islands and a part of the Malay Archipelago. It is at 13 degrees North and 122 degrees East. Situated about 750 mi (about 1210 km) east off the coast of Vietnam, the Philippines is separated from Taiwan to the north by the Bashi Channel. The country is made up of 7100 islands, and only about 460 are more than 1 sq mi (2.9 sq km) in area. Eleven islands have an area of more

Approximately 10-12 million Filipinos work as migrants abroad; the number of people leaving the country to find work is so high that migration is a regular part of life in the Philippines (Pardis, 121). Due to deeply embedded structural flows of capital and labor present in postcolonial/neocolonial economic arrangements, the Philippines depend on migrant labor as a significant export (Pardis, 123). The combination of neoliberal policies and globalization result in push and pull forces across portions of

Medieval England and the Philippines somehow reflect one another but not it terms of their system of government knowing that England is a monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy although it became a democratic state under King John if I’m not mistaken, while the Philippines is a Republic. But that’s not the limitation of their reflection. Men and women are mostly equal nowadays unlike during the Medieval England. Both are now given equal opportunities especially when it comes to jobs. Although there are