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Filipino health workers: Partners for health care in the Nordic countries

By |December 10th, 2025|Expertise, Migration and Overseas Filipino Work|

Many Filipino health workers are making their home in Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, contributing to the local economy while experiencing the benefits of Nordic social transformation. In these countries, health workers constitute the biggest bulk of the migrant workers, as they do across the world. In Norway, for example, since the arrival of the ... continue reading

What Drives Workers to Go Abroad?

By |February 22nd, 2022|CRC Insights, CRC Publications, Expertise, Migration and Overseas Filipino Work|

“What drives workers to go abroad is not absolute poverty or unemployment. The majority of the workers who go abroad have skills that are remunerated at levels three to ten times (even more in the case of seafarers) what they can earn here. In fact, the ones who become OFWs are not those ... continue reading