The Labor Market Status of Native Born Filipino\a Americans

This paper finds that Filipino Americans face significant discrimination in the labor market. Filipino Americans face both wage discrimination and occupational discrimination. But the amount of discrimination faced by Filipino Americans depends on combinations of gender, region of residence, and level of education.

Profiles of Asian American Subgroups in Massachusetts: Filipino Americans in Massachusetts

The study of Filipino Americans in the United States is both fascinating and important. It is fascinating because, as with most Asian American subgroups, Filipino Americans are highly diverse, displaying a rich contour of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. It is important because they come from a country that was the only major colony of the U.S. in the Pacific. As a consequence of this historical relationship, Filipino Americans now rank as the second most populous Asian American subgroup, and 2006 marked the centennial of the first significant group of contract laborers to be sent to Hawai’i. Despite the important roles played by Filipinos in the U.S. in building and shaping American society, however, very few studies—with most of them focusing on Filipinos in the West Coast—have been carried out. This report on Filipino Americans in Boston and Massachusetts is a small step toward filling that gap in our knowledge regarding this particular Asian American subgroup in the East Coast

Cardiovascular Risk Factors Prevalent Among Filipino-Americans: A Cross-Sectional Study

Filipino Americans are the 2nd largest Asian subgroup in the United States and their leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despite this, little is known about their prevalence of CVD risk factors. This study revealed that many Filipino Americans living in Clark County, Nevada are at risk of heart disease because of the presence of CVD risk factors. Intensive lifestyle modification and treatment are recommended to help decrease the prevalence of heart disease in this group and improve their overall health outcomes. Nurses and nurse practitioners are in excellent position to educate their Filipino American clients regarding heart disease. They should screen their clients for hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and promote strategies to help prevent CVD risk factors. They should also advocate for more research to benefit the cardiovascular health of Filipino Americans

Ineffective Aggregation of Filipino-American Health Assessment Data & It\u27s Effect on Individualized Healthcare

Background Filipino-Americans and their health care data seem to be difficult to find individually, and this is due to the continual grouping of this population with other Asian subgroups into the Asian-American population. The needs of the Filipino-American population are distinctly different from other Asian-American subgroups, and the underrepresentation leads to inadequate health care, lack of education within the community, and in some cases, disproportional deaths of Filipino-Americans. Objective To highlight the importance of adequate aggregation of health assessment data of a specific population on individualized care, in this paper, Filipino-Americans. Summary of Findings In the review of literature, it seems that aggregation of health assessment data specifically for Filipino-Americans depict major issues that may not reflect on the majority of the Asian-American population. The inadequate aggregation of Filipino-American healthcare data is also comparable to the experiences of Filipino-Canadians, who also face a similar issue in their country. Proposal Through a mixed-method study, the researchers aim to identify some of the more prominent health disparities of Filipinos in America, research possible interventions for those disparities, and create ways to prevent inadequate aggregation of Filipino-American healthcare data

Contextualizing Inductive Bible Study (IBS) in a Postcolonial Filipino American Setting

This article seeks to contextualize the application of Inductive Bible Study (IBS) to a postcolonial setting: the Filipino American Church in Los Angeles.1 As part of the process of doing so, this essay narrates a short history of colonization and Christianity in the Philippines, the migration of Filipinos to the United States and the challenges Filipino Americans encountered as a people living in a foreign land. Included in this story is the importance of Filipino American churches and some contemporary challenges and postcolonial issues (such as “colonial mentality” or internalized oppression) that affect a particular segment of Filipino Americans in its quest to grow spiritually through the Bible. IBS is examined as a liberating and empowering hermeneutic for Filipino Americans and proposals are spelled out as to how IBS can be appropriated in this particular ecclesial setting

The Relationship Between Health Adherence Behaviors, Level of Acculturation, Frequency of Cognitive Distortions, and Psychological Distress in Filipino Americans

Nonadherence to medical recommendations is a prevalent concern within the U.S health care system, including among many ethnic minority groups, such as Filipino Americans. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health adherence behaviors, acculturation level, frequency of cognitive distortions, and psychological distress in Filipino Americans. Filipino American participants (N = 121) completed the following measures: the Health Adherence Behavior Inventory, A Short Acculturation Scale for Filipino Americans, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9th edition, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale, and the Inventory of Cognitive Distortions. Results indicated a significant negative relationship between anxiety symptoms and health adherence behaviors and a significant negative relationship between depression symptoms and health adherence behaviors. Further, psychological distress was found to significantly predict health adherence behaviors, with depression making a significant contribution. There was also a significant positive relationship between acculturation and anxiety, and a significant positive relationship between acculturation and frequency of cognitive distortions. Clinical implications for this population include that the more acculturated a Filipino American is to the host culture, the higher frequency of cognitive distortions. This suggests that acculturation is an important factor to consider within health care as it relates to cognitive distortions. Future recommendations would be to consider the concept of colonial mentality, protective factors, and the development of more acculturation assessment tools for Filipino Americans

Exploring the Identity Development of Second Generation Filipino-Americans

First-generation Filipinos come to the United States in order to start a new life, provide for their families back home, seeking to fulfill their own “American Dream”, and become U.S citizens just like all immigrants. The population of Filipino-Americans is increasing as more aspire to move to the States as many have done before. Simultaneously, cultures of both worlds blur together in one’s upbringing. Second-generation Filipino-Americans, children of at least one or both first-generation Filipino-Americans, go through leaps and hurdles in their quest of delving into their ethnic identity. One’s identity can be defined by many attributes of culture, but it can be a tedious task when trying to navigate a history that may not fit an Asian-American narrative which may be focused on East Asian descent. The Philippines’ colonized history can question one whether one is Asian, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic enough. The liminality, or being in a limbo, within two cultures and embracing them is a continuing process. For my project, I decipher how young second-generation Filipino-Americans bridge or further the gap between their parents and how communities out of tradition, religion, sexuality, gender, and locality affect how one defines themselves. I examine how the second-generation today dispels the first-generation’s colonial mentality through their use of media influences, creating movements of reclaiming one’s culture by destigmatizing beauty standards, and how it conjures up solidarity in being proud of their ethnic roots

Cancer survival discrepancies in developed and developing countries: comparisons between the Philippines and the United States

Despite the availability of population-based cancer survival data from the developed and developing countries, comparisons remain very few. Such comparisons are important to assess the magnitude of survival discrepancies and to disentangle the impact of ethnic background and health care access on cancer survival. Using the SEER 13 database and databases from the Manila and Rizal Cancer Registries in the Philippines, a 5-year relative survival for 9 common cancers in 1998–2002 of Filipino-American cancer patients were compared with both cancer patients from the Philippines, having the same ethnicity, and Caucasians in the United States, being exposed to a similar societal environment and the same health care system. Survival estimates were much higher for the Filipino-Americans than the Philippine resident population, with particularly large differences (more than 20–30% units) for cancers with good prognosis if diagnosed and treated early (colorectal, breast and cervix), or those with expensive treatment regimens (leukaemias). Filipino-Americans and Caucasians showed very similar survival for all cancer sites except stomach cancer (30.7 vs 23.2%) and leukaemias (37.8 vs 48.4%). The very large differences in the survival estimates of Filipino-Americans and the Philippine resident population highlight the importance of the access to and utilisation of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities in developing countries. Survival differences in stomach cancer and leukaemia between Filipino-Americans and Caucasians in the United States most likely reflect biological factors rather than the differences in access to health care

RACE, ETHNICITY, OR KAPWA: (RE)CONCEPTUALIZING FILIPINONESS IN A SETTLER SOCIETY

Despite being the fourth-largest immigrant group in the U.S., Filipino Americans are deemed “the forgotten Asians” or “the invisible minority.” Who is our kapwa(community) amid this paradox? Given the U.S.’s imperial legacy of settler colonialism, this research attempts to interrogate this “invisibility” and further asks, What does acculturation entail for Filipino Americans in a settler society?” Using the Indigenous methodology of kwentuhan(storytelling), I highlight the breadth of Filipino American experiences vis-a-vis their ethnic identity and, conversely, the hindrance to ethnic identity empowerment in a settler society

Overcoming Panethnicity: Filipino-American Identity in a Globalized Culture

Filipino-Americans have struggled to create a unique and visible social identity within the United States. Whether it be from their early colonial experiences in America to their more recent status as a ‘minority within a minority’, these groups of individuals are caught in a constantly expanding and increasingly complex identity crisis (Cordova, 1983; Revilla 1997; San Juan 1998). However, due to the effects of globalization and the increased application of technologies such as the internet, new avenues of self-representation have opened up, allowing for the creation of more individualistic and transnational identities that are currently challenging the conventional notions of formation and representation. In this paper, I look at the history and development of Asian American identity, specifically that of Filipino-Americans and the ways in which it is being formed today. This is achieved in several stages. First, I explain the concept of the term ‘Asian American’ and the formation of Filipino-American identity though the lens of panethnicity. Then, I provide a brief history of Filipino-Americans, highlighting aspects of their individual and community development, primarily using the Washington State and Seattle area as a means of illustration. Finally, through preliminary research, I examine the modern state of Asian American and Filipino-American identity formation by interviewing several Filipino-Americans and how contemporary media phenomenon are influencing their creation of transnational identities. This is in hopes to further the scholarly dialogue of modern Asian American and Filipino-American identity formation