Sail Away From Safe Harbor [Group 2] by JAMIE TRISHA VALLE https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e The poem by Wang Ping gives voice to the voiceless in our globalized community. With all the progress and mobility globalization has enabled, there is an increase in interconnectedness and interdependence among populations and nations. However, with the opening of international borders to services, finances, ideas, and more, comes the lack of acknowledgement for those in the minority. In the poem, a line that emphasizes this is: “We carry diplomas: medicine, engineer, nurse, education, math, poetry, even if they mean nothing to the other shore”. Immigrants, refugees, and the like often face prejudice and discrimination as they look for better opportunities in other nations. The aforementioned line speaks of these people who, knowing the risks, have courageously crossed borders in pursuit of better economic opportunities and a brighter future. en-us 2021-05-08 04:59:19 UTC 2021-05-10 12:05:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f305.png Brain Drain: The Importance of the Philippine Workforce laralim https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1504673996 In most cases, immigrants face prejudice that being educated in another country does not meet the same educational standard as receiving an education from a more developed country. However, that is not the case for highly qualified and trained professionals coming from the Philippines wherein a phenomenon called “brain drain” occurs in which these workers seek careers abroad where they will be compensated more for their labor compared to being overworked and underpaid back home.

Citation: Cepeda, Cody. “PH Trails behind India, China on Countries Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From.” INQUIRER.net, Nov. 2020, newsinfo.inquirer.net/1366469/ph-trails-behind-india-china-on-countries-where-highly-educated-migrants-come-from. Accessed 10 May 2021.


]]> 2021-05-08 06:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1504673996 History of Migration in Europe annikamanalang https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1506289561 The video narrates how 40 million Europeans between the years 1840 and 1914 left their respective countries in order to seek new job opportunities, to avoid starvation, and to find better lives in other countries like America. Unfortunately, similar to the situation today, many of them were repeatedly lied to, herded like animals, or discriminated, even if they had a lot to offer.

Citation: Green, John. “Migration: Crash Course European History #29”. Youtube, uploaded by CrashCourse, 11 Dec. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN8fjAjLLpg&t=2s ]]> 2021-05-09 11:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1506289561 From Science Teacher to OFW in Mongolia jamievalle https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1507922425 Marizon Ortega is a Science teacher in Cebu City who had to take into consideration working in Mongolia in order to fulfill financial needs for her family including her ill father in need of medical support and her siblings who need educational support. Relating her being an OFW to the chosen line from the poem, it shows to say how her reason for doing this may be regarded as only a job opportunity for her in the other shore or in this case the country she’s heading to, but in understanding its essence in the country where she came from carries a more profound meaning, which extends to not just a job opportunity to meet financial necessities of the family but to provide care and attention for her family’s well-being.

Citation:
Mendizabal, S. "A TEACHER ABROAD: A STORY OF A 32-YEAR-OLD SCIENCE TEACHER WHO AVAILED THE “SA ‘PINAS, IKAW ANG MA’AM/SIR” PROGRAM". GOV.PH, http://nrco.dole.gov.ph/index.php/latest-news/34-a-teacher-abroad-a-story-of-a-32-year-old-science-teacher-who-availed-the-sa-pinas-ikaw-ang-ma-am-sir-program. Accessed 10 May 2021.]]> 2021-05-10 06:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1507922425 Hong Kong eleonorgilera https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508040336 In human's natural survival instincts, there are acts that are perceived as questionable for some of those who were not in that actual life-death situation; in a much simpler sense, not everyone has completely understood a terrible decision unless they were placed in the others' shoes and forced to make it. The story of a grade 6 teacher named Mary Anne shows how she sacrificed her title as a teacher in being a domestic worker where she was forced to work in Hong Kong because of the higher salary offered to her. 

Citation: ABS-CBN News. “Bandila: DOLE, DepEd to Help Teachers Working as Household Workers Abroad.” YouTube, 26 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Rf0pzRX-k. Accessed 10 May 2021

]]> 2021-05-10 07:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508040336 United States eleonorgilera https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508046391 When one sees an opportunity for a better life, a man can leave and forget everything behind just to become somebody in the future; like how many victims of war face a new life forgetting who they used to be; the dark images of war made their eyes search for a brighter tomorrow. In this article, the Filipino doctors were no different to the refugees seeking for a greener pasture, forgetting the MD attached to their names and as they go along building a new life on a strange land, they are willing to start from nothing until they establish their new identity.

Citation: “When Pinoy Doctors Become US Nurses.” GMA News Online, 2015, www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/content/105993/when-pinoy-doctors-become-us-nurses/story/. Accessed 10 May 2021.

]]> 2021-05-10 07:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508046391 How We Can Help Carry the Weight of These Realities. jamievalle https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508226528 In order to “carry” the weight brought by these unfortunate circumstances, the Filipino people should learn to elect qualified government officials that would uphold their responsibility of providing better job opportunities in the country. Workers should be treated with dignity, paid for their work and not have to fear retaliation. Moreover, it is important to shed light for businesses and employers to be able to provide adequately for employees, in which they acknowledge their tasks and efforts proportionally to what they earn from their job in the local context, as to not limit the latter to the option of having to work in another country for the sake of earning more only. As small, local businesses are also becoming more popular these days, we could encourage others to support these businesses so that their livelihoods could continue to grow and help contribute to the economy in return.  ]]> 2021-05-10 08:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jamievalle/2d5247ot98lpbu8e/wish/1508226528