'We were them
proudest of the proud », says Teresa Diaz about the time she – who came to
Denmark in 1967 to work – helped establish the Filipino Association of
Denmark (FAD, 1970). At that time, decades before the au pair question brought
The Philippines on the public agenda in the Nordics, there were only a few hundred
Filipinos in Denmark. Many were trained teachers, accountants, craftsmen and
nurses, but they were primarily recruited for unskilled work. Like
most other «guest workers».
Filipino
workers, however, differed from the typical image of the guest worker. Although Filipinos like for example Turks
and Yugoslavs also found work in the manufacturing industry, they became first and
primarily employed. . .
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