Family & MD Life Cycle: Overseas Filipino Worker Flashcards
A filipino who is employed in work outside the Philippines. Stay overseas is employment related and who are expected to return at the end of their work contracts.
OFWs or temporary overseas workers
More than ________ overseas Filipinos worldwide.
10 million
Those who are not properly documented or without valid residence or work permits or who are overstaying in a foreign country.
Irregular overseas Filipinos
Immigrants or legal permanent residents abroad. Stay do not depend on work contracts.
Permanent overseas Filipino
Country with highest significant populations of Filipino OFWs
US
Country with lowest significant populations of Filipino OFWs
Norway
First wave of Filipino Migration Labor occurred when
1900’s
Thousand fled widespread poverty brought by the ____________.
Philippine-American war
There were about 120,000 Filipino workers in ____________. What year.
Hawaiian plantations. 1934.
Characterized by migration to the US with the option to stay there for good or to return to the country.
First wave
Characterized by an outflow of professionals to the US. Doctors, dentists and mechanical workers.
Second wave
Primarily induced by the desire to look for greener pastures.
Migration
By ______, more than 250000 Filipinos have migrated to the ____.
- US.
Characterized by short term contractual relationships between the worker and the foreign employer.
Third wave
Economic boom brought about by the dramatic increase in oil prices enabled oil-rich countries in the ________ to pursue developmental projects.
Middle east
Highest worker deployment in 1994 at
719,602
Is the largest organized exporter of labor in the world. Working in about _____ countries.
Philippines. 193.
____ million OFWs worldwide. ___% of the total population.
- 10.
There are more Filipinos who leave the country for ___________ work than those who leave to reside permanently abroad.
Temporary contract
The predominance of the ________ as a work destination in the 70s and early 80s gave way to the emergence of ____ as increasingly important alternative destinations for Filipino labor in the mid 80s and 90s.
Middle East. Asia.
Dominate migrant deployment since the 80s. 65% to 70% of them leave the country.
Females
From deploying production, transport, construction and related workers in the 70s and mid 80s, deployment has shifted to an ever increasing proportion of service workers, particularly _________ in the mid 80s and 90s.
Domestic helpers
The Breadwinners: _______ migrant workers.
Female
Only in the Philippines do ______ constitute a large part of the workforce.
Women
In 1992: ___% of newly-hired overseas workers were women.
51
In 1994: the figure had risen to ___%.
60
In 1999: rises around ___%.
64
Rank among the most mobile or migratory in Asia.
Filipino women
Many male Filipino migrants work in _______. This sector has been shrinking slowdown in the ________ and the Asian financial crisis.
Construction. Middle East.
Jobs filled by Filipino women are less likely to be filled by __________. Demeaning work, Domestic help and Caregiving.
Women from host countries
Large portion of Filipino workers overseas
Domestic help
OFW brought in over ______ from 1990-2003.
US$62
In 2004, the Central Bank of the Philippines reported a total remittance intake of _______.
US$7.6 billion
In 2005, more than _______ remittance.
US$10 billion
Female overseas worker remit _____ more than their male counterparts. Tend to send all they can to help their families. Filipino workers in ___, mostly domestic, sent home $36 million during the first 2 months of 1995.
71%. HK.
The more numerous and largely male Filipino overseas labor force in _________ remitted only $1.2 million.
Saudi Arabia
Enables many Filipino families to buy expensive appliances, buy new homes and a send children and siblings to school.
Overseas work
Between 22-35 million Filipinos, 53% of the total population directly dependent on ________ from _______.
Remittance. Migrant worker.
Are able to help other family members in ways that would not be possible, if they stayed in the Philippines.
Overseas migrant
Studied Filipino migrants to Rome
Tacoli (1996)
______ send home the equivalent of monthly salaries every, higher than monthly salaries contributed by the ______.
Mothers. Fathers.
In Tacoli Study: Among the single workers, ______ also remit bigger amounts and on a more regular basis compared to ______.
Daughter. Sons.
reveals the financial consideration in the decision to move, but underlying this is the family’s desire for social mobility.
Tacoli study
Process of social mobility: 1. Investment in the _______ of the children to enable them to go to exclusive and expensive private schools and universities.
Schooling
Process of social mobility: 2. _____ for the purchase of land and/or animals.
Funds
Process of social mobility: 3. _______ to a set up small business managed by the family. Jeepney transport & sari-sari store.
Capital
Process of social mobility: 4. ______ to build or buy a home for the household or to rent out.
Money
Conception Study conducted when
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