Migration refers to the movement of people between locations. There are two forms of international migration: immigration, where people enter a country to live permanently, and emigration, where people leave their home country. People migrate for both forced reasons, having no choice, and voluntary reasons, responding to opportunities. Key factors that influence migration include political, economic, environmental and social push factors that induce people to leave an area, and pull factors that attract people to a destination. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) comprise a large portion of Filipinos living abroad, many working in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Hong Kong and Taiwan in elementary occupations and services. The top regions for OFWs in the Philippines are CALABARZ

2. WHAT IS
MIGRATION?

3. WHAT IS MIGRATION?
Internal Migration
•refers to people moving from
one area to another within one
country
International Migration
• refers to people crossing
borders of one country to
another.

4. TWO FORMS OF
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Immigration
• is the movement or entrance of the
people into a country with the aim of
living there permanently.
Emigration
• is the process by which people leave a
country to settle or live permanently in
another country.

5. WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE?
Forced Migration
•Human migration flows in
which the movers have no
choice but to relocate
Voluntary Migration
• Human migration flows in
which the movers respond to
perceived opportunity, not
force

6. WHY DO PEOPLE
MIGRATE?

7. FACTORS OF GLOBAL
MIGRATION
PUSH FACTORS
• the negative reasons why
people leave from an
area of origin
PULL FACTORS
• the positive reason why
people go to a desired
destination of choice.
PUSH AND THE FULL FACTORS
Political Migration
Economic Migration
Environmental Migration
Social Migration

8. OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS
(OFW)
• An Overseas Filipino Worker
(Filipino: Pilipino sa Ibayong-dagat)
is a person of Filipino origin who
lives outside the Philippines.
• This term applies to Filipinos who
are abroad indefinitely as citizens or
as permanent residents of a different
country and to those Filipino citizens
abroad for a limited, definite period,
such as on a work contract or as
students.

9. OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS
(OFW)
• The life of "OFW" is not easy, they
work to foreign country and
sacrifice. They go and find a job
there, so that they will be able to
earn money to support the daily
needs and give a better future to
their family left here in the
Philippines.

10. Philippine Statistics Office
• The number of Overseas Filipino
Workers (OFWs) who worked
abroad at anytime during the
period April to September 2019
was estimated at 2.2 million.
• Overseas Contract Workers
(OCWs) or those with existing
work contract comprised 96.8
percent of the total OFWs during
the period April to September
2019.
• There were more females than
males among OFWs. The
proportion of female OFWs to
the total OFWs was at 56 percent
compared to their male
counterpart at 44 percent.

11. Philippine Statistics Office
• At the regional level,
CALABARZON reported the
largest proportion of OFWs with
20.7 percent, followed by
Central Luzon with 13.3 percent,
National Capital Region with 9.7
percent and Western Visayas
with 9.0 percent share.
Saudi Arabia continued to be the
most preferred destination of
OFWs. About one out of five
(22.4%) OFWs worked in Saudi
Arabia during the period April to
September 2019. The other popular
destinations were:
• United Arab Emirates (13.2%),
• Hongkong (7.5%), and
• Taiwan (6.7%).

12. Philippine Statistics Office
Among occupation groups, two in every five (39.6%)
OFWs engaged in elementary occupations, which
comprised the largest share in the total OFWs.
Service and sales workers comprised the second
largest at 18 percent. The largest group of the male
OFWs worked as plant and machine operators and
assemblers (24.7%).

13. How is the
country dealing
with the effects
of brain drain
phenomenon?

15. 1. Why did you choose to work as an OFW?
2. What are the benefits of working abroad?
3. What are the challenges of working as an
OFW?
4. How do you deal with the challenges?
5. Based from your own experiences, if you
were given the choice to work in the
Philippines or abroad, which would you
choose? Why?
6. Give some pieces of advice to those who
want to become an OFW.