2. THE PLAN
What is Human Trafficking?
How does it relate to the API Community?
A Case Study: The Trafficking of Filipino Migrant Workers
Role Play Activity
Next Steps and Solutions
4. WHAT IS HUMAN
TRAFFICKING?
The trade and commodification of human beings.
Act
Means
Purpose
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• Threats
• Deception
• Physical and Verbal
Abuse
• Other abuses of
power
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Recruitment
Transportation
Transfer
Harbouring
Receipt of persons
Slavery
Forced labor
Prostitution
Sexual exploitation
7. The Philippines’ Labor Export Policy
is a set of laws and regulations set
by the Philippine government to
encourage its citizens to migrate out
of the country and to find work in
foreign nations.
WITHIN THE PHILIPPINE
CONTEXT: LABOR
EXPORT POLICY
9. US AND RACIALIZED LABOR
How US labor and immigration policies intersects with human trafficking.
10. 1. Act out your group scene!
2. Performing group will discuss how it connects to LEP
and forced migration!
3. Audience will identify how 3 elements of trafficking are in
this situation!
ROLE PLAYING
ACTIVITY
11. RESEARCH TOPIC
“People Before Profit” discusses how and why Filipino migrant
workers have become subject to human trafficking during
their migration journeys.
Through collecting stories from workers and anti-trafficking
advocates across the nation, I explore how and why Filipino
migrant workers journey from the Philippines to the United
States and analyze what factors facilitate trafficking and
exploitation throughout their journey.
After assessing the role of trafficking in migration, I shed light on
community-based solutions to combatting human trafficking,
from the local level to the global level.
12. “It hurt. I cannot accept it…I am more than a slave”
- Lorena
FINDINGS
13. MAJOR FINDINGS
The human trafficking of Filipino migrant workers is a result
of unjust global and national policies in both the Philippines
and the United States that discriminate and abuse migrant
workers.
These policies affect every part of their migration journey staring
from their home country, to their recruitment, exploitation in their
workplace, and their treatment and access to services in the
United States.
Because trafficking is facilitated by large scale policies, the
solutions are found and best led by Filipino migrant workers
themselves in their local communities.
14. HOW DO YOU THINK WE CAN
COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
15. SERVICES AND
ORGANIZATIONALLY
Build partnerships between
social service agencies and
grassroots organizations.
Involve migrant workers as
leaders for mobilizations and
campaigns against recruiters
and employers
Build support networks
amongst migrant workers
16. Educate the broader public on
human trafficking
Train local law Enforcement on
human trafficking and cultural
sensitivity
Enforce current labor protection
laws like the Domestic Workers’ Bill
of Rights
LOCALLY
17. NATIONALLY
Promote genuine immigration
reform.
Enforce labor protections for all
workers
Legalize migrant workers so that
they may find their own job
opportunities
End guest worker and temporary
worker programs that bound workers
to recruiters and employers
18. Educate Migrant Workers
About Rights and Dangers
Before Leaving Home
Country
End Foreign Labor
Recruitment Schemes.
Increase social services and
job opportunities in the
Philippines to end forced
migration
GLOBALLY
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Describe and Give Example- Palermo Protocol
Research as a way to share stories of Filipino Migrant workers and exposeUnder representation of labor trafficking and how it relates to migration and Filipino migrant workers. I hope my research can be a force that will shed light on the intersection between migration and human trafficking, and a platform to bring justice to all migrant workers
The Philippines’ Labor Export Policy is a set of laws and regulations set by the Philippine government to encourage its citizens to migrate out of the country and to find work in foreign nations. 2 This allows for overseas Filipino workers to send remittances, a source of income the Philippine government uses as sustenance for its economy. LEP is not only an economic and political force, but a cultural force, where the culture of leaving home is heavily ingrained within the Filipino community. Political, economic, and cultural forceExports workers instead of creating jobsThis allows for overseas Filipino workers to send remittances, a source of income the Philippine government uses as sustenance for its economy. LEP is not only an economic and political force, but a cultural force, where the culture of leaving home is heavily ingrained within the Filipino community.
Will accept jobs from recruitment agencies (that even work with PI govt) that promises certain jobs that hopefully alleviate sufferingInstead recruitment agencies ask workers to pay for numerous fees i.e. application fees, processing fees etc…Recruitment agencies traffick workers by creating debt bondage
- Not only find themselves trafficked by recruitment agenciesLiving in a country where migrants are not respected or protected by national policies and Immigration reform particular through guest worker programs Plus anti-immigrant sentimet
“People Before Profit” discusses how and why Filipino migrant workers have become subject to human trafficking during their migration journeys. Through collecting stories from workers and anti-trafficking advocates across the nation, I explore how and why Filipino migrant workers journey from the Philippines to the United States and analyze what factors facilitate trafficking and exploitation throughout their journey. After assessing the role of trafficking in migration, I shed light on the community-based solutions to combatting human trafficking, from the local level to the global level.