In a long-standing trend that dates back to the oil crisis of the 1970s, the Philippines’ government not only encourages the export of labor, but institutionalized it so that today, through a myriad of recruitment companies supervised by the government managing this emigration, Philippines’ government can be considered as the main temporary work agency in the world. The government has the tools control the migration of Filipinos workers, with the result that these workers have a legal status in most countries. Only Malaysia, Syria and France, according to the World Organization for Migration, host a largely paperless population of Filipino migrant workers. It is the reason why this organization describes the Philippines as “pioneering in many aspects of migration management which has become a model to many other countries.”
The Philippines, a major migrant-sending country. The Philippine Statistics Authority estimates that a total of 2.2 million Filipinos were working legally abroad under its regulations in 2016, when there are more than 10 million of them in the world under different legal status. These migrant workers are present in 200 countries, but the majority resides in the United States, Canada, the Gulf countries, the EU and Australia. The Filipinos are working mainly in non-qualified positions, such as d
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