PHILIPPINE DEMOGRAPHIC

Philippine Demographic

Philippine Demographic

IntroductionThe Philippines is one of the largest emigration countries in the world. It is estimated that more than eight million Filipinos, out of a population of about 90 million, live abroad (Commission on Filipinos Overseas, 2005). Filipino migrants are heavily represented among temporary workers in the Middle East and among the sailors, while millions of permanent migrants have settled in the United States (Asis, 2006). It is women who are central in the Philippine migration. Highly visible in the areas of services to individuals and the entertainment industry and sex, they also work in hospitals, factories, and as vendors, including the Middle East and Italy (Campani, 1993; Jackson et al. , 1999).

Despite the importance of this emigration, there are few known cases of Filipino entrepreneurship and business activities are under-represented sectors of the Filipinos. However, there are over twenty years to diversify their methods of socio-economic integration in countries of destination, and we are witnessing the emergence of businesses in North America. This development calls into question the figure partly stereotyped Filipino domestic and leads to reconfigurations in the population. Filipinos leaves the work area and engage in domestic trade and offer the opportunity to examine unexplored areas of their emigration. In France, the country to which immigration is recent and still small, Filipino entrepreneurship is changing quantity and quality, just like the people from that country.

Language

Recent immigrants to the United States from the Philippines have much of a language barrier to overcome. Language barriers are indeed relatively experienced in many American families who are Filipino. In the Philippines, English is an official language of instruction and government, and is the second largest user (foreign) school of English and then India. While an overwhelming majority of Filipinos and Filipino Americans speak English fluently, most also speak Tagalog, Visayan , Taglish, Ilokano and at home. Tagalog (also known as the Filipino) is the sixth most-spoken language in the United States. Like most immigrant groups in the United States, the mastery of Tagalog and the various Philippine languages ??tend to be lost among Filipino-Americans second and third-generation as they become more acculturésdeculturalized / assimilated into American society traditional. Filipinos have been taught English in schools, yet the Tagalog is an official language and predominant in the Philippines. There are also many dialects in the Philippines because there are three main areas: Luzon (the northern continent), the Visayas (composed of over 70 islands) and Mindanao (the largest island of the south).

Filipino Immigration to United States

Filipinos are recorded as a separate group in the statistics of immigration in United states since 1965, when Filipinos come to United states in 1467, which is nearly double the number of immigrants admitted during the two previous decades. The concern of United states's needs for labor highlighted by the IMMIGRATION POLICY government allows many Filipinos, qualified and trained through a program of mass public education, to immigrate to United states. Overcrowding and the economic and political difficulties (especially in the almost ...