Philippine Response to Curb Human Trafficking of Migrant Workers

Abstract

This paper delves into the issues, challenges and concerns of human trafficking of migrant workers in the country and at the same time evaluates the policy mechanisms of the Philippines in responding to human trafficking in migrant workers. The era of globalization has tremendously increased the growth of international labor migration which gives rise to the deployment of more migrant workers to developed countries that has placed humankind, especially the migrant workers under serious threats to human trafficking resulting to violation of human rights. The Philippines, located in the Southeast Asia, with Manila as its capital has an estimated total population of 94 million (2010). With its strategic location and considering its socio-economic conditions in terms of providing jobs to its people, the Philippines has been cited in some publications, as the source, transit and destination country for men, women and children trafficked for labor migration and worst for sexual exploitation.