Nurturing Wings or Clipping them Off: The Philippine Approach to Female Labor Migration and a Potentially Redeeming Role for the Commission on Human Rights

• Main Author: Salcedo, Emily Sanchez
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: law; civil rights; discrimination; human rights; labor; employment; gender; social welfare; workers' compensation; Civil Rights and Discrimination; Commercial Law; Human Rights Law; Labor and Employment Law; Law; Law and Gender; Social Welfare Law; Workers' Compensation Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_cbrd/30; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/res_cbrd/article/1023/viewcontent/cbrd_vol4_num1.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The large-scale migration of Filipino workers started in the 1970’s as inadequate local employment and livelihood opportunities pointed to overseas opportunities in the booming economy of oil-rich countries in the Middle East. Though initially dominated by male construction workers and seafarers, fe...