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- misaacs - May 07 2007 | Migrant Labor, Asia, poverty
An in-depth article. A lot of it holds true not just for the Philippines but also in large swathes of South Asia.
Quoted: Migrant workers from the Philippines send billions back to their country. But the Comodas family’s multigenerational experience with working abroad shows that the human cost is harder to calculate.
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