#migrant-workers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #migrant-workers, aggregated by home.social.
-
Over One Thousand Filipinos Working In Greenland
As Greenland struggles to fill its labor gap, the number of Filipinos living and working there has exceeded one thousand and their community has grown significantly, according to a news report by VnExpress.
To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the VnExpress news report. Some parts in boldface…
Filipinos and Thais have become the two largest foreign communities in Greenland, filling a labor gap the Arctic territory cannot close from its own population of about 57,000.
Roughly 1,300 Filipinos and 460 Thais now live on the island, CNA reported. The Filipino community has grown nearly fivefold from five years ago, while the Thai population has roughly doubled.
AFP put the Filipino figure slightly lower, at about 1,200, in a May report from Ilulissat, and identified Filipinos as the largest foreign diaspora in the Danish autonomous territory.
In Nuuk, the capital, there were 770 Filipinos in 2026, compared with 118 a decade ago.
They work in supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, fisheries, cleaning companies, breweries, health facilities and small businesses.
CNA reported that 12% to 13% of the workforce now comes from outside Greenlandic backgrounds, a category that includes Danes and other Europeans. AFP, citing Greenland’s employers’ organizations, put the share of Asian workers at 5% to 6%.
Greenland is the world’s largest island at about 2.16 million square kilometers, roughly the size of Western Europe, but its ice sheet covers close to 80% of the surface and its population is smaller than that of a mid-sized town.
The island is expanding tourism, services, mining and energy. A survey by the Greenland Business Association found a shortfall of around 600 workers across all sectors, and the association says the real gap is larger.
“If we all had two or three jobs, we still wouldn’t have enough people in Greenland. So we are going to be dependent on people coming in,” Christian Keldsen, the association’s director, told CNA.
A worker from Asia in Greenland earned an average of $52,800 across all sectors in 2024, according to figures cited by CNA. That is about 9.5 times the average annual wage in Thailand and more than 12 times the average in the Philippines.
A work permit also carries publicly financed healthcare, medicine, education and retirement benefits, said Steven Arnfjord, a professor at the University of Greenland who directs its Center for Arctic Welfare.
Few migrants arrive through recruitment agencies. One relative secures a permit, establishes themselves, then brings a spouse or children through family reunification.
Kristine Juul, a researcher at Roskilde University, has described the pattern to Polar Journal as chain migration, in which relatives and friends pass job information across continents.
Annabelle Cruz, 39, is a sales leader at the Brugseni supermarket chain in Nuuk. She is one of 31 members of her extended family now living and working in the capital, a chain that began 16 years ago when her sister moved.
Cruz arrived from Pampanga two years ago and now switches between English, Danish and Greenlandic on the shop floor.
About 10.7 million Filipinos live overseas, close to a tenth of the country’s population, according to the Commission on Filipinos Overseas.
Personal remittances reached a record $39.62 billion in 2025, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported, while cash remittances of $35.63 billion equaled 7.3% of GDP. Thailand’s inflows run at roughly 2% of GDP, World Bank data shows.
Keldsen said the government is working with employers on faster hiring. The old assumption that outside labor signals local incompetence is a colonial hangover that could fuel a backlash if handled badly, he said.
Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? Are you surprised to learn about the fast-growing community of Filipinos living there in Greenland? Do you know anyone who visited Greenland before?
You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.
+++++
Thank you for reading. If you find this article engaging, please click the like button below, share this article to others and also please consider making a donation to support my publishing. If you are looking for a copywriter to create content for your special project or business, check out my services and my portfolio. Feel free to contact me with a private message. Also please feel free to visit my Facebook page Author Carlo Carrasco and follow me on Twitter at @CarloCarrascoPH as well as on Tumblr at https://carlocarrasco.tumblr.com/ and on Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/authorcarlocarrasco
#ASEAN #Asia #AssociationOfSoutheastAsianNationsASEAN #BangkoSentralNgPilipinasBSP #Bing #BSP #CarloCarrasco #ChatGPT #Danish #Denmark #economics #economy #Facebook #finance #geek #Google #GoogleSearch #governance #Greenland #immigrants #immigration #Instagram #Investagrams #jobs #labor #laborers #legalImmigration #migrantWorkers #migrants #money #multiculturalism #news #Philippines #PhilippinesBlog #Pinoy #publicService #remittance #socialMedia #SoutheastAsia #technology #Thailand #Twitter #VnExpress #VnExpressNet #WordPress #WordPressCom -
Eight Uzbek citizens and one Tajik were killed in a drone attack on Nizhnekamsk, drawing Central Asia deeper into the human cost of Russia’s war https://ow.ly/jtev50ZyqEC #Nizhnekamsk #UkraineWar #MigrantWorkers #CentralAsia #DroneAttack #HumanCost #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan
Uzbekistan Forms Commission Af... -
Eight Uzbek citizens and one Tajik were killed in a drone attack on Nizhnekamsk, drawing Central Asia deeper into the human cost of Russia’s war https://ow.ly/jtev50ZyqEC #Nizhnekamsk #UkraineWar #MigrantWorkers #CentralAsia #DroneAttack #HumanCost #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan
Uzbekistan Forms Commission Af... -
Bosses have always been keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb
#Capitalism #Colonialism #exploitation #labourmovement #migrantworkers #slavery #Townsville #workingclasshistory
-
Bosses have always been keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb
#Capitalism #Colonialism #exploitation #labourmovement #migrantworkers #slavery #Townsville #workingclasshistory
-
residents in #Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right anti-migrant rally, forcing organisers to cancel their event
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/2/2-08-sv-ceuta-cancel-farright-protests-es
-
residents in #Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right anti-migrant rally, forcing organisers to cancel their event
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/2/2-08-sv-ceuta-cancel-farright-protests-es
-
The #Seabird is a plane that monitors violence along the world’s deadliest migration route. Piloted by a German NGO, it is showing how European authorities collaborate with militias to harass people crossing the Mediterranean (among the world’s most surveilled stretches of water, in the search for weapons, migrants, or drugs. This makes Europe’s collective failure to prevent record deaths more striking. )
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/eu-mediterranean-immigration-refugees-violence
-
The #Seabird is a plane that monitors violence along the world’s deadliest migration route. Piloted by a German NGO, it is showing how European authorities collaborate with militias to harass people crossing the Mediterranean (among the world’s most surveilled stretches of water, in the search for weapons, migrants, or drugs. This makes Europe’s collective failure to prevent record deaths more striking. )
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/eu-mediterranean-immigration-refugees-violence
-
#GeoGroup $4bn company runs private immigration detention centers and state prisons across the US; multi-year contracts with DHS for detention facilities, transportation services and immigrant-tracking programs.
In June, the former Geo Group executive David Venturella was named the acting director of ICE.
At #Aurora in #Colorado detainees there have been mistreated, served inadequate food and don’t have consistent access to air conditioning.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/colorado-ice-employee-arrested-shooting-protester
-
#GeoGroup $4bn company runs private immigration detention centers and state prisons across the US; multi-year contracts with DHS for detention facilities, transportation services and immigrant-tracking programs.
In June, the former Geo Group executive David Venturella was named the acting director of ICE.
At #Aurora in #Colorado detainees there have been mistreated, served inadequate food and don’t have consistent access to air conditioning.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/colorado-ice-employee-arrested-shooting-protester
-
Book Review
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by Jazmine Ulloa -
Book Review
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by Jazmine Ulloa -
“The latest killing was at least the ninth death from an encounter with federal immigration officials since Donald Trump returned to office 18 months ago.“
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/ice-shoot-and-kill-colombian-motorist-in-maine/106911958?
-
“The latest killing was at least the ninth death from an encounter with federal immigration officials since Donald Trump returned to office 18 months ago.“
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/ice-shoot-and-kill-colombian-motorist-in-maine/106911958?
-
Statistics reveal that these guest workers spend roughly a third of their total earnings locally. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-migrant-workers-annual-spending-economic-report-b676mn19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MigrantWorkers #Kerala #CMID #KeralaNews
-
Law suit alleges that ICE agents prevented first responders from administering medical care to farm worker who fell from roof during Glass House raid last year. The man, Jaime Garcia, later died from his injuries.
#ice
#dhs
#migrantworkers
#california https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2026/07/10/glass-house-farmworker-died-ice-raid/90421916007/ -
Law suit alleges that ICE agents prevented first responders from administering medical care to farm worker who fell from roof during Glass House raid last year. The man, Jaime Garcia, later died from his injuries.
#ice
#dhs
#migrantworkers
#california https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2026/07/10/glass-house-farmworker-died-ice-raid/90421916007/ -
Monday, July 13, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Vigil/Ritual
via Indivisible #SantaCruz County
Corner of Ocean and Water Street, Santa CruzSee also Disappeared In America
https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/987861/ -
Monday, July 13, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Vigil/Ritual
via Indivisible #SantaCruz County
Corner of Ocean and Water Street, Santa CruzSee also Disappeared In America
https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/987861/ -
Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.” https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-caste-migrant-labor-exploitation
Exporting Oppression
https://thewire.in/caste/caste-beyond-borders-how-neoliberalism-accelerates-oppression-by-indian-elites-overseas#Capitalism #Caste #exploitation #Gigeconomy #india #Kafala #migrantworkers #NeoLiberalism
-
Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour.” https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-caste-migrant-labor-exploitation
Exporting Oppression
https://thewire.in/caste/caste-beyond-borders-how-neoliberalism-accelerates-oppression-by-indian-elites-overseas#Capitalism #Caste #exploitation #Gigeconomy #india #Kafala #migrantworkers #NeoLiberalism