Securitizing/desecuritizing the Filipinos' 'outward migration issue' in the Philippines' relations with other Asian governments

• Main Author: Franco, Jose N. Jr.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90746; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4493
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Today's outward migration of millions of Filipinos has rendered international borders porous and blurred the already thin-line between legal and illegal overseas workers, making both documented and undocumented migrants from the Philippines a responsibility of their government. Every case affec...