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Overseas Filipino Workers Essay

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Overseas Filipino Worker, also known as OFW, is a term used to refer to a Filipino who is working abroad that are expected to return to the Philippines either upon the expiration of a work contract or upon retirement. The Philippine government should provide more financial incentives and benefits to these OFWs for they are the Philippine’s ‘bagong bayani.’ They are often referred as ‘modern day heroes’ for they have sacrificed a lot just to provide for the needs of their respective families. They also provide strong remittance flow. Filipino migrants are found all over the world. A long history of migration is deeply ingrained in the social, economic, and cultural climate of the Philippines (Center for Migrant Advocacy, 2013). The history of Philippine migration will help individuals understand how migration has shaped the social landscape of the Philippines today. History tells …show more content…

For decades, the problem of brain drain in the Philippines has been a going issue (Lee, 2011). Brain drain is the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country to another place in search for a better life or simply for higher wages. It is an ongoing issue in the that causes a detrimental effect to the Philippine economy. The matter is: as rich as the Philippines is in its natural resources, the country’s biggest exports is its people. Brain drain has become a bigger problem in the last 12 years (Domingo, 2012). Outflow of Filipino science and technology workers has risen to 148%. The Philippines ranks 96 out of 139 countries in terms of availability of scientists and engineers. It causes the drawback in the economy as other countries tend to gain more from the Filipino workers instead of their home country where they gained their training (Ilagan, Nuqui, Sabariaga, & Sarao, 2013). With this, the Philippines cannot develop when there are many professionals leaving the

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