“Remittance” is a story about a young Filipina domestic worker in Singapore trying to cope with the hardships and abuse faced by low-wage migrant workers while balancing living for herself versus living for her family. The film stars Angela Barotia as Marie, who works as a domestic worker and moonlights as an actress in her spare […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced two landmark settlements totaling $328 million with rideshare companies Uber and Lyft for cheating drivers out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The settlements resolve multi-year investigations into Uber and Lyft, which found that the companies’ policies withheld hard-earned pay from drivers and prevented them from receiving valuable benefits […]
By Lynn Topel There have been claims that in 1763, in a little-known fishing village on Lake Borgne in Louisiana called St. Malo, Filipino fishermen built houses on stilts, learned to live with the elements, and energized the local shrimp industry. Nearly 9,000 miles away, Filipinos in Louisiana were a long way from home. However, […]
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) released on September 13 its newest estimates of the size and top countries of origin of the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States, estimating the number at 11.2 million in 2021. That figure is up from 11.0 million in 2019—a larger annual growth rate than seen since 2015. The estimates derive […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Aida Demetrio clutches the small card while waiting to clear immigration at Newark airport. She waives at her husband standing outside. She has been a permanent resident for a decade and a half. She flies back and forth regularly between Manila and New Jersey and is perfectly content just having a […]
The FilAm Editorial In the Old Testament, a case was brought to King Solomon by two women both claiming to be the mother of a baby. Solomon ordered the baby split between the two. One of the women agreed; the second woman said no, let the other woman keep the child. Solomon gave the baby […]
By Glenn Magpantay, Esq. On the cusp of LGBTQ Pride Month and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Apicha Community Health Center (CHC) unveiled on May 31 the results of its yearlong study to address the health and wellness needs of New York City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Asian, Asian American, South Asian, […]
By Marivir Montebon A senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in New York cited the need for Congress to craft a flexible immigration policy to match new immigrants with the U.S. labor needs. He cited New Jersey as a good example. Muzaffar Chishti, director of MPI at the New York University School of Law, […]
College-educated immigrants in the United States are more likely to have advanced degrees and to major in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and health fields than their U.S.-born peers with college degrees. For these reasons, the average monthly earnings of immigrant college graduates exceed those of U.S.-born graduates. These findings come from a […]