Overseas Filipinos Overseas Filipinos The Filipino American (Fil-Am for short) community is the second-largest Asian American group in the United States ** Fil-Ams are Americans who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines, an archipelagic nation found in Southeast Asia south of Taiwan and east of the South China Sea, and have attained United States residency and/or citizenship. There are over 2.4 million Americans who identified their ancestry as Filipino while this number is speculated to be at 4 million. More than half of the Filipino-American community is of American citizenship and the rest are Filipino nationals and/or dual citizens of the United States and the Philippines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Filipino American"
Australia recorded about 127,000 Filipinos and/or Filipino-Australians in 2000. Filipinos In Australia all have permanent residency or Australian citizenships, due to the fact that Australian government don't issue working visas to Filipinos. Despite this fact, there is still a very small number of Filipinos who lives in Australia illegally, most of them have overstayed their visitor visas. The main criteria to enable a Filipino migrate to Australia is skills and education, thus most of the Filipino migrants in Australia are professionals and skilled people. Most Filipino-Australians hold very good positions as health professionals, educators, engineers, computer programmers, trades people and even as public servants. There's a small number of Filipino migrants who are employed in the blue collar industries, such as factory workers, hospitalility workers and construction labourers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Filipino-Australian"
There are on average around 140,000 Filipinos in Hong Kong, of whom most are domestic helpers (30,000 of them being members of the Filipino Migrant Workers Union). Filipino maids are known by the locals as amahs, or more often feiyungs and the slangs bun muis or bun buns. A Hong Kong work visa requires some amount of higher education; and in some cases Filipino women with college degrees and perfect command of English are willing to work as maids and nannies for the higher salary they will receive in Hong Kong than they could make at home. ...more on Wikipedia about "Filipinos in Hong Kong"
An Overseas Filipino is a person of Philippine origin who lives and works outside the Philippines. The poor performance of the Philippine economy over recent decades, combined with a widespread knowledge of English, a legacy of the Philippines' position as a former United States colony, have made Filipinos one of the most internationally mobile nationalities. Often works overseas will support extended families back in the Philippines. As a result, many countries around the world have a substantial Filipino community ...more on Wikipedia about "Overseas Filipino"
Saint Malo was a small fishing village that existed in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana near New Orleans from the mid 18th century to the early 19th century. It was the first settlement of Filipinos in the United States and quite possibly the first of any Asian people in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saint Malo, Louisiana"
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