With about 10% of the Filipino population working abroad and financial rewards from foreign earnings returning to the Philippines, the labour export industry became a flourishing business for the private sector, the state and the Filipino people. This growth and dependency increased the role of the...
When people move within one country, migration is called internal. Urbanisation is one of the examples: massive industrialisation makes millions of people move from the countryside into the cities in search of a better life as labour force is always in demand there. When people move from one co...
Cortes P (2015) The feminization of international migration and its effects on the children left behind: evidence from the Philippines. World Dev 65:62–78 Article Google Scholar De Neve J.-E., Diener E, Tay L, & Xuereb C (2013) The objective benefits of subjective well-being. In J...
10 Philippines -164K 11 Greece -159K Showing 1 to 11 of 55 entries ‹12345› Note: Figures rounded. Sudan, located in Northeast Africa, also posted a net migration number in the negative millions (-1,000,000), due to an ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the...
For instance, data fromlabour emigrationpermits in South and South-East Asia show that some countries, such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, allocate 70 per cent or more of such permits to prospective female migrants. UN-2
However, migration flows have changed significantly in the neoliberal era, and these changes have produced different policy orientations among sending states. Many sending states 鈥 the Philippines is a prominent example 鈥 now have explicit migration management policies that are geared towards ...
PhilippinesUnited StatesResearchers in the Cochrane Collaboration conducted a review of the effect of interventions to control the emigration of health professionals from low- and middle-income countries. After searching for all relevant studies, they found only one study that......
PhilippinesUnited Statestext/htmlcharset=UTF-8Background The emigration of skilled professionals from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries (HICs) is a general phenomenon but poses particular challenges in health care, where it contributes to human resource shortages in ...
Modern Japanese emigration began in 1868 with the Meiji Restoration of 1868–1912. From the outset, the emigrants were migrant workers and were regarded as such by the Japanese government; those who sought permanent residency at their destinations were a
However, another study conducted in the Philippines and Vietnam did not support this [23]. Two studies from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka found no negative impact of parental migration for weight and height outcomes [20,22]. 3.5.2. Physical Activity There was only one study from Mexico which ...