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Risk & Rewards.
Stories from the Philippine Migration Trail
Millions of people from de Philippines, a small archipelagic
country in South-east Asia, can be found in more than 100 countries
across all continents. They work as sailors, staff in hotels
and on cruise ships, domestic workers, engineers, nurses, teachers,
musicians, construction and factory workers. Filipinos are among
the world’s most globalised nationals, contributing many
other economies apart form their own.
But much of the reportage about them has tended to focus on
labour and consular matters, and views them as economic resources.
Often left in the background is the human side of migration:
what it means for the workers, their families, their children,
the country that loses them, and the societies that host them.
This collection of articles – which follows Filipino workers
in Asia, Europe, Latina America and the Middle East- explores
the lives they build away form home, with a special focus on
reproductive health and sexuality.
Risk and Rewards: Stories form the Philippine Migration Trail
is a lens through which to assess the gains and costs of a country’s
labour migration policy, and hold rich lessons for other nations
and societies as well. |
