Risks and Rewards:
Stories from the Philippine Migration Trail
by Various Authors
Copyright 2002
Published by Inter Press Service
Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

Some 7 million people from the Philippines, a tiny archipelagic country in South-east Asia, can be found in more than 100 countries across all continents. That makes them one of most globalised peoples on earth.

This collection of 36 news articles-which follows Filipino workers across 13 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East—explores the lives they build away from home, with a focus on reproductive health and sexuality. The features were produced under IPS Asia-Pacific's fellowship programme on migration, supported by the Ford Foundation (Philippines).

"Risks and Rewards: Stories from the Philippine Migration Trail" is a lens through which to assess the gains and costs of a country's labour migration policy-and holds rich lessons for other nations and societies as well.

Do visit our migration page at http://www.ips.org/migration/index.html

OOV Bookshelf 2002

OCTOBER 2002 FEATURE My Romance by Eileen Tabios Insurrection: A Novel of the American and Philippine War by Daniel R. Williams Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole by Eileen Tabios The Darker Fall by Rick Barot JULY 2002 FEATURE A Passing Season by Azucena Grajo Uranza Sarabihon: A Journal of Sorsogon Studies by Various Authors Risks and Rewards: Stories from the Philippine Migration Trail by Various Authors Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild: An Anthology of Filipino-American Writings by Various Authors MARCH 2002 FEATURE Between the Homeland and the Diaspora: The Politics of Theorizing Filipino and Filipino-American Identities (A Second Look at the Poststructuralism-Indigenization Debates) by S. Lily Mendoza Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines by Michael Salman Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-Story Cycles by Rocio Davis Grandfather, the King by Mar Puatu