One of the world's biggest exporters of laborers, the Phillipines, has blacklisted 41 countries that do not protect sufficiently foreign laborers. Approximately ten percent of the population, or nine million people, work abroad as laborers, maids, and seamen, and most are abused by their employers. The Phillipine economy has long been dependent on the money sent back into the country by the foreign workers. The move to blacklist follows reports that surfaced about workers being starved, beaten, and sexually abused by employers. Others have claimed that their passports have been confiscated, and then their salaries are withheld from them. Human Rights Watch conducted a study that found that once arriving in foreign countries, the workers are confined in training centers for up to three months without adequate food, water, and medical care.
Some of the key aspects of the dependency theory are evident in this article. First off, dependency brings exploitation. In recent decades, people have begun going to poorer countries in search of cheap labor, exploiting the people rather than the land. It is also evident that their is distortion. The economies of the poor are structured to serve the needs of wealthy foreigners and maybe a small internal elite. These rich countries and corporations are abusing workers in dependent countries and rely upon them to do the work that makes them so profitable to begin with. They starve, beat, and abuse defenseless people and scare them into doing their dirty work, with little to no compensation. If we want to break the cycle and change human nature, this is a global problem that we must address.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/blacklisted-the-countries-where-filipino-servants--are-facing-abuse-6256176.html
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