TWO quotes from Heraclitus ring relevant and timely for 10 to 12 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs): “The only thing that is constant is change” and “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas’ latest statistics (December 2013) put the stock estimate of Overseas Filipinos at 10,238,614. The total figure is further divided into permanent and temporary. The number is almost evenly divided between permanent and temporary workers with 1.1 million categorized as “irregulars.”
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