![]() “Why are we saying that a vision of success is going to leave your country? It’s not an issue that only policy can tackle : it’s intersectional.” ![]() “It goes back into a fundamental root of what constitutes as the Philippines,” Clifford said. It’s an export policy that people like my parents and parents of Filipino expats in the global diaspora have become a part of. As a result of this, many Filipinos who work abroad work as (none other than) nurses due to the nursing shortage in many countries and the Philippine’s labor diaspora is one of the biggest in the world where around 10 percent (9 million people) of the population live overseas. If you’re not familiar with the “labor export policy”, it’s when the economic vitality of the Philippines rely heavily on the migration of Filipinos. This vision of success, which according to Filipino immigrants is defined as working towards becoming a nurse, comes from a capitalist idea: labor export policy in the Philippines. We need to start teaching this to, I think, other Filipino Americans, especially when they’re younger and to not put them on a pedestal to say that the very vision of success is a doctor or nurse.” Meanwhile, the more established generation wants to be happy and fulfilled. “Our parents wants us to be secure and have a sustainable life. “It really goes back to the hierarchy of needs,” Clifford said. I also spoke with Clifford Temprosa, who works at the Pilipino American Unity for Progress (abbreviated as UniPro) and Coalition for Asian American Children and Families and works in local politics, who spoke from a hyper-community perspective and its impacts on the Filipino community. And, to many white people, that makes us all the same.” “You have to be a little unafraid to point out that, in the end, we are all non-white people. ![]() “I often have to have tough conversations with ,” Nadine explained. These relationships with our families are delicate and nuanced, and it takes time and lots of talking to navigate these gray areas with our families. And so we sometimes become the unintentional target for that unprocessed trauma.” “Even if we’re not directly experiencing that in our current lives, oftentimes, in first world countries, we are still experiencing a lot of psychological distress that comes with interacting with family members who have not yet processed that trauma. “We carry the burdens that our families have experienced throughout generations - from our ancestors to our great-grandparents to our parents,” she answered after I asked her for her definition of intergenerational trauma. Nadine in a photoshoot for The Kultura magazine. ![]()
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