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Filipino diaspora

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Filipino diaspora are the Filipinos outwith the Philippines. The diaspora numbers about 5 million persons. Two million Filipinos live in the United States. Many members of the Filipino diaspora have been subject to trafficking of people. In 1985 4407 citizens of the Philippines were expelled from Japan. In Spain, Greece and other countries trading centres for Filipinas and other women, who are trafficked exist. On slave markets in Serbia, Bosnia and other countries women are shown in a naked state.