what are the effects of the emergence of overseas filipino workers to the economy of the philippines?
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One can certainly write a book about this topic, but here are a few consequences stemming from the increasing numbers of overseas Filipino workers, of OFWs.\n\nSociological: many observers have noticed changes in the traditional family structure; as a substantial portion of OFWs are women, they often work abroad to send money home to put their children through school; thus, children often live in single parent households where the primary breadwinner is absent and gender roles are reversed, i.e. the mother is the breadwinner, while the father takes on the role of homemaker.\n\nEconomic: overseas remittances are important in keeping the Philippines' balance of payments in surplus; as such, this preserves the level of reserve assets held by the Philippines, thus contributing to debt sustainability (the country is one of the largest issuers of sovereign debt in the developing world) and propping up the exchange rate (thanks in part to the large inflow of overseas remittances from OFWs, the Philippine peso was one of the strongest performers vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar in 2005).\n\nPolitical: given their increased importance in the economy, OFWs have rightly gained increased influence as a political constituency--up until 2004, overseas Filipinos were denied the right to vote; because of their large numbers -- some estimates go as high as 8 million -- their vote could potentially swing an election; however, as evidenced by the low turnout by eligible overseas Filipino voters in 2004, huge logistics problems need to be tackled to fulfill that potential.
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Hello, there are many ‘foreign’ biologists but I don’t know of any Filipino biologist. You should throw this question back to the one who asked.
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Your questiom is vagued. Just, the same, let me try to answer-\n\nPolitics in the philippines (1945-2006) has not changed. It is still a regime of one set of traditional politicians versus another in competition for the control of the wealth of our nation at the expense of the majority Filipino people.\n\nTry to get hold of a certain Prof Emanuel Yap - founder of the People's Patriotic Movement (PPM) he has a more learned and indepth analysis of the Philippine Political Situation vis-a-vis china, the usa and the world.
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So far, economic globalization has hampered diversity in several ways around here. \n\nIt's reduced the number of options people in my community have for work. Most of us, no matter what we invested in our education, or what sort of vocational credentials we have, have had to take jobs in the low-paying retail or food-service sector.\n\nAs our wages dropped, so did the amount of taxes we could pay for public services, and so the condition of our neighborhoods has deteriorated badly. Crimes against property, violent crime, and vice crimes, have increased in the area.\n\nThe people who could afford to move have moved out of state to the few places left where they could find high-paying work. I know of several college graduates who've had to move overseas (one moved to India) in order to work in their field of interest.\n\nHuge, cheap, "big-box" retailers, who outsource the production of their goods overseas, have moved into the area and replaced most of the independently-owned shops, because we could no longer afford to purchase quality products from local producers and retailers.\n\nHonestly, I'm a little worried about economic globalization.
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By all accounts, we are putting them to work.  And that's fine with most people, especially the people who hire them.  So there is no problem.\n\nBut problems were made.  Because they became more numerous, they became more visible, and so they got more notice.  Eeek!  An immigrant!  Two, three, a dozen, right over there!\n\nNow we have to sort out frightened people's "concerns" against the economic benefits of having them here to do our crop picking, lawn care, babysitting and other low-end jobs.
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The Philippines are a large archipelago of seven thousand islands near the coast of Asia. The primary commercial products are hemp, sugar cane, hemp, tobacco, coconut, rubber, gold and copper deposits. Much of its trade is done with the U.S.A. Even though the Philippines was surmounted by the Spanish, the Filipino people were still able to retain their identity. They are mostly Malay and Chinese with a small Spanish minority. To my knowledge, the Philippians's population is approximately 61,480,000 and the area is approximately 115,600 square miles. The Philippines is about 80% Catholic with a small Muslim minority. It is interesting to note that the Philippines was named after Philip of Spain.\n It is also interesting to note that in 1895 a group of Filipinos( called the Manila Men(mostly from the southern part of the Philippines) settled a little community near New Orleans, Louisiana. Using their experience of fishing in the Philippines, these men found the bayous of Louisiana similar to the bayous in the Philippines. They eventually founded one of the oldest and most popular fishing villages in Barataria Bay, Manila Village, named after the capital of the Philippines, Manila.
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I was there with the army for over a year. During that time I met some south americans that were working there. They could not speak english or korean. They said that they somehow got their point across with their employer. Overall they seem pretty happy. That was like 9 years ago. I heard that now they have big latino colonies over there. \nA lot of Koreans are xenophobic. As a latino I was more accepted trying to mingle with Filipinos or by myself, than hanging around with other US soldiers.
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Why is your question in the immigration section? \nThe Philippines has too many people and a poor economy, but it is always growing with foreign companies coming in. There are many more very poor citizens than wealthy. The government has a bad reputation and many want the president impeached. Muslims are many in Mindanao especially with gorilla and explosive training terrorist camps. There are many Internet cafes where women lure or try to meet foreign men to ask for money, or try to marry to leave there and most do that for a better future for them an their family as well. There are many lady boys \n( transvestites) there doing the same thing. So this shows you the people there do what they can to survive. Many live in huts or shacks with no utilities and outside toilets and overcrowded. In general a very proud people that becomes more westernized every week. Water standards are poor and too few inoculations for disease, thus the outbreak of viruses is common. Chicken pox, yellow fever, bird flu is rampant in some areas now.
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If that will happened, many Muslims will absolutely go to the north especiallly in Manila. They will trade, as you said, to the chirstians. And many will be affected by the growth of the population, like poverty and lack of suffecient income. 'Coz if the population of muslim will grow, they'll seek for job!\n\nWhy, are you a filipino? Just want you to know that I'm!
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i cannot give you names that are famous but i can definitely give you a group of "OFW Martyrs and Victims". they are the more than 400 US H1B visa holders sponsored by a Fil-Am owned IT consulting company based in Springfield, MO. they are all underpaid and exploited. contracts are not followed. i am sorry to tell you that their employment just ended today, feb 24th, and their visas will be cancelled. i was once employed by this company and i underwent the same suffering they experienced. luckily, another company gave me an opportunity and my visa was transfered.\n\nto give you an overview, click the link below and read on. you decide and i hope you can help. Pinoy pa rin ang nanloloko sa mga kababayan natin dito sa America! How sad... \n\nhttp://www.ofw-connect.com/OFWForum/viewtopic.php?t=788\n\nif the site is non-operational at this time please try again. this is really an interesting story. i think the Philippine government must act on this.
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I thought all those who left to work here would be welcomed as heros when they returned home.  But from what I hear that's not  the case.  Millions have left which means more open space, more food, water, jobs and less crime for those who remained.   One Mexican after being deported returned home, was told by his fellowman that he wasn't welcome, they feared he'd take their job.   Does that sound familiar?  He said he'd head for China.
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In the sixteenth century, Spaniards arrived on Philippine shores. One of their expressed aims for colonizing our islands was to Christianize the pagan natives. Many university students of today, however, no longer accept this. They believe that Spanish missionaries were instruments of a merchant empire with designs on cheap raw materials and the strategic ports of a Pacific archipelago.\n\nVarious consequences stem from the manner in which Christianity entered Filipino life. First, priests, nuns and church workers occupied social positions of power, as they were simultaneously loved, feared and revered by the local population. Second, the Spanish Catholic Church attempted to expand very rapidly throughout the archipelago. This resulted in the physical presence of church buildings and church networks even in farflung rural areas.\n\nWhen the Marcos regime became extremely abusive, the only other social counterbalance to the power and physical presence of the dictatorship was the Catholic Church. This occupied positions of influence not only in urban centers, but also in the countryside as well. More so, its physical presence throughout the country became convenient ad hoc centers of dissemination for information regarding political activities.\n\nThe politico-cultural impact of Christianity on Filipino liberation movements runs through history. What has come to life in our society is an integration of Western Christianity with the more deeply set spiritual orientations of an Asian people. As one psychologist writes, "During Spanish times, he (the Filipino) accepted Roman Catholicism whose saints fused beautifully with his belief in a spirit world . . ." (Bulatao, 1986).\n\nDuring four centuries of Spanish rule, pockets of peasant uprisings challenged the colonial authorities. Cultural themes in the popular religious book called the Pasyon inspired Filipino revolutionary activity (Ileto, 1979). Peasant leaders strongly identified with the image of the suffering Christ, whose death on the Cross was the ultimate sacrifice for the common good.\n\nWhen Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972, the ideas if the theology of liberation had begun to take root in the Philippines. Throughout the dictatorship, various liberation movements weaved in and out of a political worldview that combined transcendental ideas of man with more pragmatic Marxist-style outlooks. (Human Development Research and Documentation, 1982).\n\nCatholic bishops took longer than Church grassroots movements to respond to Marcos' regime (Quevedo, 1986). In the first ten years of Martial Rule, pastoral letters by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) remained relatively non-committal. Later, a significant change took place. For example, its 1983 statements touch the most sensitive social issues of that year (Hardy, 1984).\n\nThe February Revolution of 1986 highlighted the marriage of religion with politics. Thousands of Filipinos faced the regime's tanks unarmed. The street revolutionaries had nothing but prayers and whispered calls to their Mother Mary to protect them from harm. Eventual victory was not only a historical moment of political change, but also "a profoundly religious experience" (Nebres, 1986).\n\nIn those momentous February days, faith-expression was a mixture  of Western Catholicism and folk culture. The Filipino's highly personalistic culture demanded that leadership emanate from persons physically present during the crisis. Throughout the four days at EDSA, there was the "personal participation of the Sto. Niño or the Blessed Mother leading the procession. It was all very Filipino" (Bulatao, 1986)\n\nThe Filipino concept of power blended well with Christian orientations to produce the EDSA victory. In our culture, there are two sources of social strength: lakas and awa. The first is possessed by the powerful; it is their capacity to get what they want because of politico-economic-military re
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I'd say you should find a new line of work. Not to be a downer, but jobs like that are being outsourced overseas at alarming rates. =[\n\nIt probably has a direct and nasty effect on wages here.
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I think there is a whole country full of Filipinos that live in the Philippines.........
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It is okay. Works on both sides of the business. The operators get cheap services by redirecting these calls to these 3rd world countries and the workers get a job and a good pay at it!\n\nSo far I have heard no bitter complaints in the Philippines (yes I am from here!) except the night shift schedules.\n\nI believe in the competence of these call center employees because they would not get hired in the first place if their english grammar, pronunciation or accent is poor and they went through rigid trainings to get in that spot. Besides they are trained to observe strict work and phone ethics so no matter how irate and wild the callers will be, they extend their patience a thousandfold and still accomodate these and remain lowly and humble as would a true blue customer service representative.\n\nSo far so good. This is a good example that all things work together if the 1st world countries tap the resources in the 3rd world countries, form better partnerships with mutual benefits for economic cooperation and unity and drag each other towards progress. =)
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One of the essential thing in the economy of any country is related to the amount of foreign currency inthe countries.\nfor philippine case , they high number of worker in teh overseas that translate they salary and wages each month to phillipines increase automaticly the foreigne currencies in the country than they support the economical position of phillipine
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I am pretty positive that you can apply for dual citizenship (with Philippine passport) or a balikbayan status which allows you to stay in the country for a year hassle-free because of your Filipino parentage. My brother in law has that (he's white) for the simple association of being married to a Filipina. Meanwhile if you want to work you could either:\n\na. look for an Expatriate job there which would assign you here\n\nb. push for recognition as a dual citizen\n\nor \nc. just go here and look for possible employment as an Alien\n\nGood luck man, its really a blast living here, i dont blame you. :)\n\n***\nto Well, \n\ni didnt say it was automatic, i said i was pretty positive that he could apply for it because of his parentage.