Immigration to the Philippines
Immigration to the Philippines is the process by which people migrate to the Philippines to reside in the country. Many, but not all, become citizens of the Philippines.
History
Prehistorical migration
Modern theories of the peopling of the Philippines islands are interpreted against the wider backdrop of the migrations of the
Migration during the Spanish period
By the 16th century,
The current modern-day
There are also
Migration during the American period
Following the escape from forced labor in the Spanish galleon trade in the 18th century, Filipino Americans would go to establish their own settlements. Filipino Americans founded their first recorded settlement in Saint Malo, Louisiana. Overtime, other settlements would come to fruition with the largest of them being Manila Village in Barataria Bay.[19] The Philippines was a former American colony and during the American colonial era, there were over 800,000 Americans who were born in the Philippines but no clear data as it is still a estimation or it below to 100,000 or lower.[20] As of 2013[update], there were 220,000 American citizens living in the country as pandemic hits hundreds and thousands of American local residents has been displaced and relocate back to America might be the result of declining of the Philippine immigration shows in statistic authority.[21]
Population
The total number of immigrants and expats in the Philippines as of the 2020 census is 78,396.[22] This is significantly lower compared to 177,365 recorded in 2010.[23]
According to a 2013 country migration report, the recent most notable nationalities of foreign aliens with work permits include
The top ten countries of foreign citizenship in the Philippines according to the 2020 Census of Population and Housing are:[22]
- China 22,494
- India 18,959
- United States 6,306
- Japan 4,397
- South Korea 4,372
- Germany 1,533
- Australia 1,460
- Taiwan 1,021
- Indonesia 955
- Vietnam 944
- Others 15,955
Laws
The Philippine Immigration Act prescribes fourteen different visas grouped into two broad categories:
- Section 9 visas (non-immigrant visas), for temporary visits such as those for tourism, business, transit, study or employment
- Section 13 visas (immigrant visas), for foreign nationals who wish to become permanent residents in the Philippines
Some visas have been introduced by subsequent legislation or proclamation of the President which are not classified by the Philippine Immigration Act as either being a Section 9 or Section 13 visa. These visas are called special visas and are issued to groups such as retirees, investors and entrepreneurs.
The Bureau of Immigration was given the sole authority to enforce and administer immigration and foreign nationals registration laws including the admission, registration, exclusion and deportation and repatriation of foreign nationals. It also supervises the immigration from the Philippines of foreign nationals.
Refugees
The Philippines has a history of accepting refugees fleeing from conflict, persecution and calamities. This instances include:[25]
- White Russians from the former Russian Empire following the 1917 October Revolution
- Jewish people from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe
- Spanish republicans following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939
- Chinese refugees following the end of the Chinese Civil War
- White Russians from China
- Vietnamese boat people fleeing the Vietnam War
- Iranian students and workers in the Philippines following the Iranian Revolution
- Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s
- East Timorese refugees during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor
See also
- Americans in the Philippines
- Arabs in the Philippines
- Brazilians in the Philippines
- Chinese Filipino
- Filipinos of Malay descent
- Germans in the Philippines
- Greek settlement in the Philippines
- History of the Jews in the Philippines
- Indian Filipino
- Indonesians in the Philippines
- Iranians in the Philippines
- Japanese in the Philippines
- Koreans in the Philippines
- Mexican settlement in the Philippines
- Nepalese people in the Philippines
- Polish settlement in the Philippines
- Spanish Filipino
- Overseas Filipinos
- Tourism in the Philippines
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c. At the same time, person-to-person contacts are widespread: Some 600,000 Americans live in the Philippines and there are 3 million Filipino-Americans, many of whom are devoting themselves to typhoon relief.
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