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"Prevents ancestry or community membership from being used to infer formal entitlements." }, { "name": "Generational connection", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Philippines-born migrant, foreign-born descendant or another explicitly defined connection", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes migration experience from inherited or self-defined diaspora affiliation." }, { "name": "Transnational ties", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Household, care, financial, cultural, civic or organisational ties, with direction and frequency where supported", "why_it_matters": "Captures continuing relationships without assuming every overseas Filipino maintains the same connections." }, { "name": "Collective representation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named representative body, represented constituency, mandate and limits", "why_it_matters": "Establishes who can speak or act for a particular constituency." } ], "affordances": [ "Determine whether a described population fits a 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"must_not": [ "Treat Overseas Filipinos as a single group with the same status or experience.", "Share or infer individuals' migration or immigration status.", "Help recruiters or employers exploit or deceive migrant workers.", "Stereotype people by nationality or occupation." ], "requires_human": [ "Contacting authorities about a migrant in distress or at risk of exploitation." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Many overseas workers face exploitation and abuse far from home.", "Families depend on remittances; their privacy and dignity must be protected." ], "affected_parties": [ "Overseas workers", "Their families", "Diaspora communities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns a people; Philippine authorities keep records of registered overseas workers.", "master_systems": [ "Official overseas employment registration records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Membership cannot be identified visually and depends on ethnic Filipino identity, residence outside the Philippines and 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"what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Overseas Filipinos", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipinos", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "population-boundaries", "name": "Population boundaries", "description": "Establishes what Overseas Filipinos means in each usage and which adjacent categories it includes.", "rationale": "The entry has no recorded definition, and citizenship, descent, residence and employment can produce different populations.", "layers": [ { "id": "membership-definitions", "name": "Membership definitions", "description": "Separates institutional classifications from ancestry-based and self-identified community membership.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-inclusion-rule", "name": "Explicit inclusion rule", "description": "Record the 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"Does this number count residents at a date, unique people during a period, departures, employment contracts or registrations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counting-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which people might be omitted or counted more than once, and how does the source address those limitations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "counting-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-comparability", "name": "Composition and comparability", "description": "Supports comparison without erasing differences in population definitions.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-population-profiles", "name": "Comparable population profiles", "description": "Keep destination, citizenship, generation and migration-purpose breakdowns tied to the definitions that generated them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which destination, citizenship, birthplace, generation and migration-purpose breakdowns are supported by the evidence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-population-profiles-q01" }, { "text": "Which definition or collection changes must be reconciled before comparing destinations or reporting a trend?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-population-profiles-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mobility-and-circumstances", "name": "Mobility and circumstances", "description": "Describes migration trajectories and conditions relevant to the population's present situation.", "rationale": "Temporary work, settlement, family migration and return can create different needs that a single diaspora label conceals.", "layers": [ { "id": "migration-trajectories", "name": "Migration trajectories", "description": "Tracks movement and changes of residence or migration purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "trajectory-and-transition", "name": "Trajectory and transition", "description": "Record evidenced pathways between departure, residence abroad, circular movement, onward migration and return.", "questions": [ { "text": "What migration purposes and durations characterise this population, and are they observed or inferred?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "trajectory-and-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Which transitions change its classification, support needs or relationship with the Philippines?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "trajectory-and-transition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "destination-circumstances", "name": "Destination circumstances", "description": "Locates livelihood, household and support conditions in a particular destination and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "differentiated-needs", "name": "Differentiated needs", "description": "Assess reported circumstances by relevant subgroup without assuming a uniform overseas Filipino experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence describes employment, education, household arrangements, language access and unmet support needs in this destination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "differentiated-needs-q01" }, { "text": "Which subgroups need different responses, and what additional evidence is needed before choosing an 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across generations, and where does participation vary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "expressed-filipino-affiliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-representation-and-action", "name": "Institutions, representation and action", "description": "Connects population circumstances to relevant institutions and bounded collective agency.", "rationale": "The ACT placement must not imply that a dispersed population has one decision-maker, while useful action requires concrete institutional relationships.", "layers": [ { "id": "service-and-participation-pathways", "name": "Service and participation pathways", "description": "Identifies applicable support and civic pathways with their eligibility boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-institutional-pathways", "name": "Verified institutional pathways", "description": "Associate potential services and participation mechanisms with the responsible institution, destination, date and population criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Philippine, destination-country or community institutions provide relevant assistance or participation mechanisms for this subgroup?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-institutional-pathways-q01" }, { "text": "What current citizenship, residence, employment or registration requirements must be checked before referring someone?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-institutional-pathways-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-agency", "name": "Collective agency", "description": "Distinguishes population descriptions from authorised representation and coordinated activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-representative-mandate", "name": "Bounded representative mandate", "description": "Attribute collective statements and actions to evidenced organisations or constituencies rather than to all Overseas Filipinos.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who claims to represent which overseas Filipino constituency, and what membership, election or delegation supports that claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q01" }, { "text": "What may that representative decide or undertake, and which affected groups remain outside its mandate?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-representative-mandate-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The registry supplies no sense definition; first establish whether it intends citizens abroad, Philippine-born residents abroad or the wider ancestry-based diaspora.", "Permanent, temporary and irregular categories occur in Philippine overseas-population reporting, but their definitions and reference periods should be checked before reuse.", "No population totals, legal provisions or identifier values are supplied because these require source verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Overseas Filipinos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Permanent emigrants and settlers abroad", "Temporary overseas workers", "Filipino students abroad", "Dependent family members residing abroad", "Filipinos with irregular immigration status", "Foreign-born descendants of Filipino emigrants" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Overseas Filipinos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Planning consular services and assistance to nationals", "Studying migration, diaspora formation and transnational families", "Measuring remittance flows and their household and economic effects", "Designing overseas employment protection and reintegration programmes", "Supporting diaspora cultural organisations and community services" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Overseas Filipinos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Undercounting people with irregular status or limited contact with official institutions", "Combining citizenship, birthplace and ancestry counts as though they measured the same population", "Confusing the number of people residing abroad with annual departures or employment deployments", "Exposure to recruitment fraud, labour exploitation, trafficking and discrimination", "Family separation and barriers to accessing protection or services across jurisdictions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Overseas Filipinos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Destination countries differ in whether their statistics identify Filipinos by citizenship, birthplace, ancestry or self-reported ethnicity.", "Overseas populations include differing mixtures of permanent settlers, temporary workers, students and descendants across destination countries.", "Immigration and citizenship arrangements affect opportunities for settlement, family reunification and participation in public life." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Overseas Filipinos this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Overseas Filipino workers", "difference": "Defined by overseas employment; overseas 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"openQuestions": [ "Which institutional and community definitions should anchor this entry, particularly for foreign-born descendants without Philippine citizenship?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this population or its governing concept, requiring a link instead of a separate publication?", "How should the ACT placement distinguish a demographic population, a diaspora community and organised actors within it?", "Which sources provide sufficiently comparable estimates, and how do they handle temporary residents, mobile workers, unregistered populations and returnees?", "What destination-specific and community-led evidence is needed to represent differences in needs, identity and participation without overgeneralising?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }