菲律賓移駐勞工在台灣的處境

為回應資本主義全球化，菲律賓政府全面採取自由化、私有化和去管制化政策，對原本落後、農業和前工業化的菲律賓經齊，產生效命的傷害。接二連三的經濟危機，使得失業成為菲律賓社會長久以來的問題，而「勞力出口計劃」便成為馬可士政權以來歷任菲律賓總統解決失業問題的策略，並已成為國家最重要財政來源。台灣於1990正式引進外勞，但在此之前，菲律賓人便開始在台灣以非法身份工作。移工為台灣提供了大量的廉價勞動力，特別是底層的「3-D」工作。移工在台處境艱難，須繳巨額仲介費，並面對壓迫和剝削的工作和生活條件，以及漠視和屈從的菲律賓官員。「亞太移工工作團」是個以支持移駐勞工運動為職志的區域性中心，藉由倡導、組織和連結，以促進移工權益；由於當地組織的協助和其他客觀因素，目前在香港和韓國的移工組織工作較為成功，值得台灣發展移工組織參考。 As a response to the call for capitalist globalization, the Philippine government has employed liberalization, privatization and deregulation in full scale, which has been greatly detrimental to the already backward, agrarian and pre-industrial Philippines and its ailing economy. Time and again, the Philippine economic crisis convulses. With such a condition, domestic unemployment becomes a permanent fixture in Philippine society. Since Marcos regime, the "labor export program" has served as a solution to the rising unemployment problems and it has become the top dollar earner for the country. Filipinos started working in Taiwan as undocumented workers even before the Taiwan government formally imported migrant workers in 1990. The migrant workers in Taiwan have to face very difficult situation, including excessive placement and brokers fees, oppressive and exploitative working and living conditions, and indifferent and subservient Philippine government officials. APMM is a cause-oriented regional center committed to support the migrants' movement through advocacy, organizing, and building linkages for the advancement of migrants' rights. With the support of local groups and other conditions, the organizing work of migrant workers in Hong Kong and South Korea are more successful, which can be emulated in Taiwan in the future.