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Migration, remittances promote gender equality in RP |
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The Sunday Times
Remittances sent by Filipino migrants in Italy promote gender-sensitive local rural community development in the Philippines and support capacity-building activities with migrant associations to improve the living conditions of Filipino migrants in Italy.
Thus concludes the case study Gender, Remittances and Local Rural Development: The case of Filipino migration to Italy, recently published by the United Nations (UN) agencies UN-International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Italy-based migrant service group Filipino Women’s Council (FWC).
Research was carried out in Rome, Italy and in selected rural communities in Pampanga, Batangas, Ilocos Sur, Oriental Mindoro and Tarlac in the Philippines. Qualitative data was collected in two round-table sessions and 132 in-depth personal interviews with 61 migrants in Rome and 71 members of migrant households in the Philippines.
The high feminization of migration from the Philippines was one of the reasons that the country was selected for a case study of the impacts of women’s migration. Italy is the sixth most popular destination country among Filipino migrants (after Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates). It also hosts the largest number of Filipino migrants within Europe (followed by Spain, Greece and Austria).
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