Labor Migration in 2009: A Terrible Year to Be an OFW - Bulatlat

Labor Migration in 2009: A Terrible Year to Be an OFW - Bulatlat: "But cases of abuses, contract substitution, among others, have increased, so did the number of distressed OFWs, those in foreign prisons, and the number of dead bodies being repatriated . With 3,700 OFWs now leaving daily to work abroad, excluding undocumented Filipinos, cases of “criminal neglect” of distressed and abused OFWs by government officials and agencies supposedly tasked with protecting Filipinos abroad have also been increasing."