Development Through Distress

New Naratif's Southeast Asia Dispatches

Previously, Teo S. Marasigan, Filipino activist and New Naratif's researcher, published research series on OFWs titled "The Philippines’ Dangerous Dependence on the Exploitation of its People" and "Agency Amidst Structures in Migration: Stories of Filipina Domestic Workers in Dubai".

In this episode, Bonnibel Rambatan talks to to Teo S. Marasigan and Zelda Santos, a domestic worker and volunteer of a help desk for distressed OFWs in the United Arab Emirates, about the history of OFWs, how the government ended up aggressively exporting Filipinos, how did people decided to be one, bagong bayani narrative from the government, help desk for OFWs from OFWs, and who are the beneficiaries of this phenomenon.

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