T he Migration Policy Institute (MPI) welcomes discussion of any proposal that Overseas-Filipino or Filipino organizations might have. The MPI is a Washington, DC-based research organization. It is not an advocacy group, so any possible joint initiative from Overseas-Filipino workers’ groups would have to be grounded in the research realm.

According to Ms. Michelle Mittelstadt, the MPI’s Director of Communications, the Overseas-Filipino workers (OFWs) have been a significant research focus for the MPI.  

Ms. Mittelstadt provided to this website a list of some of the MPI’s earlier work focusing on the Philippines (and often OFWs):

·         Protecting Overseas Workers: Lessons and Cautions from the Philippines, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MigDevInsight_091807.pdf

·         Managing Temporary Migration: Lessons from the Philippine Model, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Insight_POEA_Oct07.pdf

·         Filipino Immigrants in the United States, http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/display.cfm?ID=694

·         The Philippines’ Culture of Migration, http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=364

·         Labor Export as Government Policy: The Case of the Philippines, http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=191

The MPI discussed also the Philippines in:

·         Migration and the Global Recession, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MPI-BBCreport-Sept09.pdf

·         Learning by Doing: Experiences of Circular Migration, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Insight-IGC-Sept08.pdf

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