ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the consequences of the out-migration of large numbers of Filipinos (25% of the working population) in search of work, to escape political oppression, to seek better lives or simply out of a sense of adventure and desire to explore the world. These factors are indissolubly linked and their corresponding motivations and identities inseparable. The communications revolution has only strengthened these parallel forces of attraction and repulsion. For this reason, migration in all its forms, technological change, global security and sustainability should be investigated as an interacting system whose parts complement as well as disaggregate their respective elements. People have multiple identities and develop them according to specific needs and contexts. It is the socio-economic structures themselves that oblige people to invent themselves according to particular requirements.
