Why the Philippines has become the hometown of the world's servants

The Philippines, although with a population of only 0.1 billion, has provided a large number of migrant workers to the world. The Philippines is therefore called the "Hometown of Nannies in the World" (or "Hometown of Servants in the World").

The reason why the name of Filipino domestic helpers can be famous all over the world is also accumulated over a long period of time, and the tradition of Filipinos working overseas dates back to the 16th century.

The advent of the era of great navigation made the Philippines a Spanish colony. Since then, the Filipinos have been forced by Spanish colonists to work in Spanish shipyards, mainly responsible for shipbuilding, repairs, etc., or directly to the sea as grassroots sailors.

Therefore, the first batch of Filipino overseas workers dealt with ships and seas. Perhaps so many Filipino employees on modern cruise ships are a kind of inheritance.

At the end of the nineteenth century, after the Spanish-American War, the Philippines became a colony of the United States. The change of the suzerain state has made the pace of Filipino overseas workers faster and farther.

At this time, the United States promulgated the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the number of Chinese workers in the United States decreased. Filipino workers were forcibly recruited into the United States on a large scale to make up for the vacancies of the Chinese, and engaged in a large number of low-end, cheap, and hard jobs.

Before the independence of the Philippines, Filipino overseas workers were mainly recruited by colonists to work in Europe and the United States.

After independence, because of the domestic economic depression in the Philippines, the country could not provide enough jobs for its citizens, and Filipinos began to work overseas spontaneously.

The Western world is the first step for Filipinos to go out to work. A large number of Filipinos can be seen in European ships, American farms, and even American mercenaries.

With the process of world globalization, the demand for overseas employees and types of work in various countries around the world are also changing. With this change, Filipinos have also moved to the world.

After the oil crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, Middle Eastern countries have become important new destinations for labor export in the Philippines.

After the oil crisis, the Middle East countries have developed rapidly in infrastructure construction and other aspects, and many industries need a lot of human resources.

The population base of the Middle East countries is very small, and the local population is completely unable to support the complex modern industries. Therefore, all walks of life have turned their attention to overseas, seeking overseas labor to make up for the shortage of labor force.

The affluent working population of the Philippines seized this opportunity, and groups of workers rushed to work in the Middle East's native countries.