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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
How this Statistical Almanac was developed
The world now lives in an era of what experts call “international migration and development.” Now that the movement of people is a visible development issue worldwide, all the more that the Philippines must have available statistics on overseas Filipinos that are then analyzed with identified socio-economic development indicators.
The Institute for Migration and Development Issues started compiling datasets on overseas Filipinos when it was technical editor of a government publication called the Fourth State of the Philippine Population Report (SPPR4), the report, still to be released by the Commission on Population (PopCom)), was a first attempt to look at Filipinos’ international migration from the standpoint of demography—with migration both internal and international, among the three processes in demography.
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
The reader is advised to take note of the strengths and limitations of the datasets here on Filipinos international migration, or even the international datasets on international migration and migrants’ remittances. Many datasets are often missing, lagging, or lacking in cross-country comparability. Capturing data on irregular or undocumented migration remains a big challenge (World Bank, 2008). On a global scale, datasets on international migration movements have their own limitations (Michael Clemens, 2008).
Data on Filipinos’ international migration: the migrant abroad and migrant households
These datasets cover the three types of international migration movements by Filipinos (in Commission on Filipinos Overseas, 2008):
- Permanent migrants – These refer to Filipino migrants and legal permanent residents abroad. Permanent migrants may be Filipinos who are Filipino citizens, who are Philippine passport holders, or who have been naturalized citizens in the host country. Popular labels to these kinds of migrants are “immigrants” and “emigrants”. Filipino or Filipina spouses who have married foreign partners and have settled overseas are part of this group.
- Temporary migrants – These refer to Filipinos whose stay overseas, while regular and properly documented, is temporary. This is owed to the employment-related nature of their status in host countries. Temporary migrants include contract workers, intra-company transferees, students, trainees, entrepreneurs, businessmen, traders, and others whose stay abroad is six months or more. These migrants are popularly referred to as “overseas contract workers (OCWs)” or “overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)”.
- Irregular migrants – These are migrants whose stay abroad is not properly documented. They also do not have valid residence and work permits; they may also be overstaying workers or tourists in a foreign country. Migrants belonging to this category shall have been in such status for six months or more. A related label to these migrants is “undocumented migrants”. In Filipino parlance, these migrants are called “TNTs” (tago ng tago, or “always in hiding”).
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