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Exec
says undocumented workers bleeding DFA dry
PASAY
CITY—A DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs executive bared that
Filipino workers going abroad through informal channels and encounters
problems are causing financial ills for government because of
increased repatriation. Yet the embassies and the consular offices
of the Philippines abroad have to be open for every Filipino in
need of assistance abroad, documented or not, the executive director
of DFA’s Migrant Workers’ Affairs office explained.
NEIL ALLENDE reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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Migration
no guarantee out of rural poverty-WB
MANILA–CONTRARY
to popular beliefs, migration, despite the volume of money it brings
(especially from abroad), has neither brought rural folks out of
poverty nor is it a sure fire way for farm people to clamber aboard
the prosperity wagon. “Where migration is more or less permanent,
income from migration depends on the success of the migrant and
the reason for migration. So migration is not a guaranteed pathway
out of poverty,” the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (popularly known as the World Bank) said in its
recently released report debunking several myths on agricultural
development. ISAGANI DE LA PAZ reports for the
OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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What
Asean migrant's rights agenda?–analysts
MANILA—ANALYSTS
are far from getting their hopes up that migrant workers' rights
would spike interest among leaders of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations who would meet next month in Singapore. Expect follow-through
to go slow, said many of 160 participants in a recent discussion
on an eight-month-old Asean declaration for protecting and promoting
migrant workers' rights. They were referring to the 12th Asean Summit
in Cebu City, where advocacy on upholding the human rights of migrant
workers in the Southeast Asian region reached two gains: a declaration
and a committee to implement that declaration. JEREMAIAH
M. OPINIANO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium®.
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SIDEBAR
Recruiters
seek relaxed immigration law in RP-Japan trade deal
QUEZON
CITY–RECRUITERS of Filipinos to Japan are tying that country’s
immigration law to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement
currently under negotiation, believing that the former is the key
for the country to benefit from Jpepa. The Philippines will not
benefit much from sending skilled workers to Japan on a major consideration,
Philippine Association of Recruitment Agencies Deploying Artists
(Parada) president Lorenzo Langomez said, adding: “If Japan’s
immigration laws will be favorable to us [Filipinos],” then
Jpepa could work. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW Journalism
Consortium®. Full
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How
to take care of your money?
Read
the stories of the OFW Journalism Consortium on financial literacy
for Filipinos abroad and their families back home. Click
here
2006
Special Newspacket on Financial Literacy in Overseas Filipinos
by the OFW Journalism Consortium cited in the newsletter Migrant
Remittances
(published by the United States Agency for International Development
[USAID]-Microenterprise Development Office and the United Kingdom
Department for International Development [DFID])
http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Migrant%20Remittances_Oct06.pdf
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