Diaspora institutions in South Korea: The role of Protestant FBOs in supporting Filipino factory migrant workers

• Main Author: Kim, Dae Myeong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Religious institutions > Korea (South); Foreign workers, Filipino > Korea (South); Philippines > Emigration and immigration; Korea (South) > Emigration and immigration; European Languages and Societies; International and Area Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/5851; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12690&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

In 2019, the number of overseas filipino workers (hereinafter, “OFWs” or “Filipino workers”) surpassed 2 million. The Republic of Korea (hereinafter, “South Korea” or “Korea”) has generally been welcoming more OFWs than other nations, particularly in 2014 and the trend continued in 2019, when South...