Agents Sands,
I've been waiting for someone to post here, since I'm interested in the question myself. Meanwhile, since I'm very close to the Philippino community, I married a Philippina who worked in Madrid, I can tell you what I know about their situation.
Philippinos have been working in Spain for many decades. It seems that the cultural closeness made it convenient, and for a long while, cheap, to hire Philippinos for mostly domestic type work. I find it silly how many of the Philippinos, whom I knew as domestic helpers, maids, in Spain, tell many American friends that they were nurses or teachers. To me there's nothing wrong with this profession, and it helped keep many family members alive.
As I return now, after twenty, twenty-five years, I see that many Philippinos have prospered. Many of them have become small business owners and their progress makes me happy.
Unfortunately, because of inflation in general, I don't believe very many of them are still brought over to Spain for work anymore. The only dark side of this relationship between the Spanish and Philippinos is the predudicial and corrupt nature of the Spanish legal system. When a Philippino has a run-in with the law, it goes very badly for them. Some of the stories I heard were pathetic.
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