Name: REA JOY CANDOLE BALILI BSHM 1A
Course code & Course title: GE-CW - THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Date Submitted: SEPTEMBER 06, 2024
Instructor: VIA D. JENITA, LPT
CRITIQUE PAPER: The rising number of Filipinos wanting to go abroad.
As Immanuel Kant stated, "All our knowledge begins with the senses,
proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher
than reason." This perspective relates to the rising number of Filipinos aspiring to go
abroad; several factors influence their decision. For some, the motivation is depended
by personal ambitions, passions, and dreams. Others are looking for new experiences
and opportunities to explore different aspects of life. However, majority remarks with
practical reason wherein seeking employment opportunities and improving their
economic situation.
Some Filipinos leave their home country in pursuing personal ambitions,
passions, and dreams. Based on few interviewed individuals, they believe that they
have a better chance of achieving their goals in another country, where the resources
and opportunities can be more accessible to success. Also, they have personal
objectives of settling on gaining greater benefits like foundation in career growth,
constructing own house, buy own cars, owning land properties and so on that can
promote a stable and satisfying kind of living. In reality, this manner of viewpoint is
one of Filipino individual's instinct and personality of privileging advantages, that
somehow consider of having an opportunistic and ambitious characteristic.
Another reason, others depart simply with desire to explore and to gain new
experiences and enter on a new journey of exploration. These individuals are often go
for excitement and adventure that comes with living in a foreign country, they are
eager to involve themselves in a new languages, cuisines, customs and so on. They
see traveling as an opportunity to widen their perspectives and gain valuable life
experiences that they not be able to find in the Philippines.
Furthermore, Filipinos often choose to leave the Philippines and move abroad
mostly for economic reasons, just like higher wages and better opportunities for their
families. Their migration is largely influenced by reason like underemployment,
safety concerns, and limited career advancement in the Philippines. According with
econometric analysis, it shows that remittances, salary levels, political instability and
unemployment significantly affect the migration of overseas Filipino workers, with a
positive correlation between remittances and the number of migrants. Economic
globalization, along with ongoing danger poverty and unemployment challenges in
the Philippines, it motivates Filipinos to pursue better opportunities abroad, despite
the difficulties and risks with being an overseas worker. Specifically, in order, to
provide the needs and survives every single day of living, to sustain and build
children's better and satisfying life and great future, Filipino's instinct through their
knowledge, understanding and experience are made them to decide and choose going
abroad as a solution on their circumstances.
To sum up, the rising number of Filipinos wanting to go abroad can be seen as
a reflection of the power of reason in guiding human decision-making, just like Kant’s
statement highlights the importance of reason in our understanding and experience of
the world. Additionally, it can be noted that it regarded to a variety of factors, each
creating a meaningful role in shaping individual's decision. Whether it is for the
adventure, employment opportunities, or personal ambitions, going overseas offers
Filipinos a chance to explore new journey, gain valuable life experiences, and secure
a brighter future for themselves and their loved ones.
References:
Gabriel, Lapid., Andrea, Jeanne, Lugtu., Dela, Cruz,, Eloisa. (2022). Macroeconomic
Determinants of International Migration of Overseas Filipino Workers. Journal of
economics, finance and accounting studies, 4(1):492-515. doi:
10.32996/jefas.2022.4.1.30
retrieved from https://typeset.io/papers/macroeconomic-determinants-of-international-
migration-of-2qzr5c55
Pura, Velasco. (2002). Filipino migrant workers amidst globalization.. Canadian
Woman Studies, 21(4)
Retrieved from https://typeset.io/papers/filipino-migrant-workers-amidst-
globalization-58zchqn1x3
