by TESS E. MANZANO I t’s déjà vu all over again. That’s how I felt reading the report on the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration trying to dissuade jobless Filipino women from going to work in Middle Eastern countries (“Scare tactics won’t work on jobless women, says OWWA ,” 1/21/18). Wasn’t it only some decades ago during the Iraq war when our government offered to repatriate Filipino housekeepers, with a majority of them preferring to stay in those Muslim countries? Is it lack of education or of information about abusive foreign employers that drives so many Filipinos to slavery overseas? Doesn’t it denote a lack of faith and hope in this nation’s leaders for countless women to leave their families to work in danger zones abroad? Obviously most of those citizens jettison any nationalist feelings to flee this impoverished country. Another story in the Inquirer about Filipino women who worked in Japan as entertainers and chose to stay ...
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