What a relief if we cease receiving another report of a monster preying on our Filipina workers. We detest seeing them returning in a box. It’s a different case when it is the monster who ends up in a box. MBOpinions READ:
Jullebee Ranara could be any Filipina who braved the Middle East for better money for her family. She could be anybody’s mother, aged 35 years old with four kids, always expectant of returning with her savings and dreams. But as that one broadsheet’s editorial put it, she happened to be like many other Filipinos who “came home in a box.”
Kuwait is not an isolated case. The rest of the oil-rich Middle East has become a killing desert. As the Guardian reported, as many as 10,000 migrant workers from South and South-East Asia die every year in the Gulf states. Half of these deaths are unexplained. Aside from heat and humidity, migrant workers perish due to air pollution, overwork and abusive working conditions. Long hours of manual labor in high temperature can damage vital organs.
From a policy standpoint, the Philippines should have been ambivalent because the good that comes out of deploying workers abroad is also bad optics. It means people fly because the opportunities abroad are more promising. So, what started out in 1974 as a stop-gap measure, and in response to the huge demand from the Middle East’s oil bonanza, became a permanent fixture in mitigating our chronic external trade deficit and low income.
But every year, our migrants’ cash remittances aggregate an average of $30 billion or ₱1.65 trillion — that’s easily 30 percent of the annual budget, or just less than 30 percent of our FX reserves. Even if they fly home in a box, those in authority will have second thoughts doing what former President Rodrigo Duterte did in 2018 in banning deployment in Kuwait.
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