College
Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business
Department/Unit
Commercial Law
Document Type
Article
Source Title
DLSU Business Notes and Briefings
Volume
4
Issue
1
Publication Date
1-2016
Place of Publication
Manila
Publication Status
1
Abstract
The large-scale migration of Filipino workers started in the 1970’s as inadequate local employment and livelihood opportunities pointed to overseas opportunities in the booming economy of oil-rich countries in the Middle East. Though initially dominated by male construction workers and seafarers, female migrant workers, mostly in the health care professions, in domestic services and in the entertainment industry, followed suit and, in the most recent available statistical report, have even slightly outnumbered the men. As of the end of 2014, 50.43% of the 2.32 million overseas Filipino workers are women. Collectively, these overseas workers sent about 27 billion dollars in remittances in 2014, equivalent to 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. The Philippine economy has been kept afloat in the past decades by the said remittances prompting the government to hail overseas Filipino workers as the country’s modern-day heroes.
Recommended Citation
Salcedo, E. (2016). Nurturing Wings or Clipping them Off: The Philippine Approach to Female Labor Migration and a Potentially Redeeming Role for the Commission on Human Rights. DLSU Business Notes and Briefings, 4 (1) Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_cbrd/30
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law, civil rights, discrimination, human rights, labor, employment, gender, social welfare, workers' compensation
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