Global Migration In The Philippines

Migration is a means to go from one position to another in order to exist and act. But nowadays, many people in the Philippines decide to migrate in another country to have a better life. Migration is deeply implanted within the social, economic, and cultural climate of the Philippines. As one of the major origin nation of migrants, migration has greatly affected the Philippines and The history of Philippine migration helps perceive, however migration has formed the social landscape of the Philippines nowadays. In the deeper story of migration explains the motivation of Filipinos to travel overseas, the challenges and also the opportunities that they face. Globally, a lot of individuals ever asked for higher lives outside their home countries. Specifically, Filipinos who live abroad are ten million and those Filipino leaves the country are quite one million annually work abroad. Remittances to the Philippines from round the cosmos continue to rise.

Labor migration might be a national thrust for the process and different countries, because of the Philippines as a model in regulation migration. On the other hand, some of the migrant employees or OFW (Overseas Filipino Worker) are forced into work against their will and they are deceived regarding to their character of labor and receive wages that are however what is secure. But sometimes the victims are the migrant people/ workers in forced labor and also in human trafficking.

For more than a decade, sizeable numbers of Filipinos have left home in search of permanent settlement or temporary work overseas, trends long attributed to the delicate economy. Quite more than millions of Filipino population are living abroad, although a markedly improved economic scenario in recent years has not diminished the outflows, it’s allowed the country to move to the far side its long labor migration policy to include migration into long-run development coming up with and strengthen the come and reintegration of overseas Filipino employees (OFWs).

Why do Filipino people migrate and what are their reasons they go live abroad and work? People migrate for five basic reasons and the cause would fall under these areas are: a) Environmental such as calamities and natural disasters; b) Economics, moving to find a particular career path; c) Cultural, the freedom of religious and educational; d) Political, avoiding from political persecution and; e) Social, moving to have a better quality of life. People know that some of the Filipino migrate because of these five basic reasons that however often failed and realize the perspective in going into a decision in migrating. The reasons for migration that people consider the advantages and disadvantages of migrating. People also assume that not only the chance of opportunity and also the real conditions of that new place, but as well the opportunities close by which are attractive. But there are also aspects that need to consider as well as the cost for the travel, the time and distance, the mode of transportation and lastly, yet not the least is the cultural barriers and also biases. As what said before there are aspects the Emigrating the cause for leaving the place because of the difficulties such as in a food shortage, calamities, high crime, lack of safety, poverty etc. Other aspects are the Immigrating the cause for moving into a place because of the ambition, a dream or a desirable like in food supply, liberty, a better climate, employment opportunities, peace in an environment, more wealth, safer, less crime, lower risk from natural hazards, more fertile soil etc. The Filipino people are either voluntarily or involuntarily to migrate.

The Philippines ultimately end up one of the country’s top ten in those conventional immigration functions. This permanent migration were a Filipino immigrant and authorized permanent citizens abroad, Filipino spouses of foreign citizens were surpassed by the large and the sharper temporary labor migration that was started in the year 1970s. Although the CFO (Commission on Filipino Overseas) estimates the permanent migrants of stock which includes the Filipinos who are born in a foreign country, the temporary migrants.

The Philippines are becoming the country source of workers, as the number of aspects that led to the ascent of the Philippines as a major big rule of labor exporters in Asia and also worldwide. Economic advantages could not retain pace with the population growth and the country was hard to offer jobs and decent wages despite the fact dealing with severe balance salary problems. Filipinos are current in the distant reaches of the globe, it is mostly because of work. Filipino women are more visible in the international migration and not only to create a majority of permanent settlers such as part of the family migration, but men are as prominent in labor migration. In fact, on 1992, females are usually outnumbered by men between the newly employed land-based labors legally deployed each year. However, the demand for domestic workers has been the main driver of the female migration from the Philippines and also China in general, till 2005.

By the Philippine Statistics Authority conducted a survey showing in 2015 alone, that Filipinos who work abroad are more than 1,844,000. The data on deploying workers, which is consist of seafarers, who report for 20 to 22% of all Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) every year. Reporting from 25 to 30% of the world’s seafarers and the Filipinos controls the global seafaring industry.

OFWs work in different countries and most of the Filipinos are paid in currencies of that specific country where the OFWs works. As part of the little increase in the remittances is due to the beneficial exchange that get because of the US dollar reduction in contradiction of many foreign currencies. It turns out to be the human capital for the source of the country.

One of the problems encountered by developing nation which is the Philippines with respect to the human capital was brain drain, with a poor region losing a third to a half of their fresh college graduates, particularly the professionals that is a trend that can affect the major gaps. The migrants from the Philippines heading for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is approximately 52% countries have reached tertiary education and the overall population of the Filipinos are more than a double of 23%. Besides the mind drain, the MGI (McKinsey Global Institute) also stated that 0-7% salaries of low-professional employees may want to fall because of emigration. However, while emigration has its rate for some origin countries, it also makes some long-term benefits such as better motivations to invest in education, better job matches, social remittance, trade and investment flows. In social remittance meant to be the skills, experiences, networks and understanding carried back into the country as soon as emigrants return. For example, the Philippines is a great exporter of nurses. The opportunities of the emigration associated with the nursing have encouraged the development of an exclusive system of great quality private education that supports to educate low-income women and also to open a career path for the Filipino people in need. After graduating or education the large number of nurses stays, and today the Philippines have more skilled nurses per capita at home than the wealthier countries.

When Rodrigo Roa Duterte became the sixth president of the Philippines in 2016. Similar to Filipinos at home, the OFWs largely voted for President Duterte. In Duterte’s administration has sent a signal on exactly how it will handle the international migration. The president finds approval among the OFWs, and response of overwhelming support. In first year as a president, Duterte made 21 overseas trips, go to 18 countries for visiting and talk for a short time with the Filipinos abroad, who greeted president Duterte enthusiastically. The administration of Duterte, introduced some of the direct moves to rush government methods affecting the OFWs, including planning a one-stop-shop facility centers at the POEA. However, Duterte’s proposal is to create a particular department to efficiently address countless of OFW worries that it would be a departure from the several organization approach that over the years the Philippines has fashioned. During his visit on April 2017, to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar. President Duterte clearly expressed that by ready to kneel in advance to the OFWs and to express appreciation for the sacrifices in sending money and gifts home. While appearing before the Filipino people, president Duterte promise to bring a better service over and done with the proposed in Department of Overseas Filipino Workers. When Duterte met with a Filipino in Japan, and vow to end the Filipinos’ search for opportunities outside the Philippine country; that Duterte will work hard and produce more, so by the time, the promise that Duterte said to the person and God and to all working abroad, that this will be the last. In the next future generation of the Filipinos will work in the Philippines.