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Americas/
Trust Territories : 3,518,699
Intergenerational
Feminised
Institutionalised
and state-mediated
Directed towards East and West Asia
Feminisation of Migration
Basis is not only sheer number
Global gender-based division of labour
1990-99: 5,299,428
2000-08 :6,550,381
Sea-based workers
1975-79: 167,945
1980-89: 644,092
1990-99: 1,593,269
2000-08: 2,231,602
Breaking the 200 country-barrier
Pres. Arroyo’s target: min. of 1 M
deployment annually
Change in the focus of POEA: from
regulation to “ …. full-blast market-
development efforts, the exploration
of frontier, fertile job markets for
Filipino expatriate workers
“ (A.O.247)
CHEd
The newly created
Presidential Task Force on
Education has adopted the
Philippine Main Education
Highway as blueprint to
meet its goal of producing “
quality and world –class
graduates. “ (Valisno 2008)
CHEd
CHEd Chair, Dr. Emmanuel Angeles:
10+2+3 scheme
Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority : PGMA
directed it align its priorities to
POEA’s aggressive marketing
initiative and to intensify its skills
training and skills upgrading program.
Prof’l Regulation Commission
Its mandate has “gone far
beyond licensing board
passers into promoting and
sustaining a corps of world-
class, technical proficient,
and ethically competent
Filipino professionals.” (PRC
Website)
Major issues of overseas Filipinos
Contract violations
Insecurity of tenure
Filipinas
trafficked range from 300,000
to 400,000 annually (Senator Jinggoy Estrada, November
2008)
Human Trafficking
Trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore
reached "all-time high", with 212 cases in
2007, representing a very alarming
increase from 59 in 2004 (DFA, 2008)
Networking
Legal action
Non-support
Consultation
Roundtable
Discussion, Illegal
Recruitment