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The Philippines has been a major source of international migrants since the 1970s. The Commission on Filipinos Overseas estimates that, by the end of 2012, a total of 10,489,628 Filipinos, or about 10 per cent of the country’s population, were living and working in over 200 countries (CFO, 2013).
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Nagasaka, I. (2015). Migration Trends of Filipino Children. In: Nagasaka, I., Fresnoza-Flot, A. (eds) Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137515148_3
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