UCSP 11

Understanding Culture Society and Politics– Grade 11

Quarter 2 – Module 11: Poverty and Transnational Migration
First Edition, 2020

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 UCSP 11
Quarter 1
Self-Learning Module11
Poverty and Transnational Migration

Introductory Message
 For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Understanding Culture Society and Politics Grade 11 Self-

Learning Module on Poverty and Transnational Migration!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the Learner:

Welcome to the Understanding Culture Society and Politics Grade 11 Self-

Learning Module on Poverty and Transnational Migration!
 This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measure how much you have learned from the
entire module.

EXPECTATIONS

In this lesson, the students are expected to:

1. Explain the concept of poverty and transnational migration in the society.

2. Identify International Agenda addressing poverty and transnational migration
globally.
3. Create a compilation of government programs and initiatives highlighting their
contributions addressing poverty and transnational migration in the country.

PRETEST
Before we discuss the Lesson today, let us answer the following questions. Are
you Ready?

1. It is a social condition that is characterized by the lack of resources necessary for

basic survival or necessary to meet a certain minimum level of living standards
expected for the place where one lives.
a. Prosperity b. Scarcity c. Poverty d. Deficiency
2. A procedure of people transferring from one country to another getting a job or
look for greener pasture for their survival without forgetting his origin country.
a. Transnational migration b. Immigration c. Emigration d. Process
3. To End Poverty in all forms Everywhere.
a. SDG Goal # 1 b. SDG Goal # 3 c. SDG Goal # 9 d. SDG Goal #10
4. It is mandated as provider of programs and services for the welfare Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) through OWWA (Overseas Welfare Workers Association).
a. RA 10364 b. RA 10801 c. RA 10906 d. RA 7845
5. Two major agency advocates in which primary goal is eradicating poverty
worldwide.
a. World Bank & United Nation c. China Bank and United Kingdom
b. United Arab Emirates & Dubai d. United Kingdom for Love and Support

RECAP

We have discussed in previous lesson the value of capital forms and how the
different forms affect the society. We learned about Social, Political and Symbolic
Capital incorporating it to the accessibility of resources. In the social capital, the
control and power will be coming from the top level and majority of the access are
enjoyed by them. In the political Capital, the trust and reputation of a certain leader
primarily his/her access to empower people. The Symbolic Capital is a representation
of ascribed status he is born with.

LESSON

Poverty and Transnational Migration

The picture of toddlers above is a description of a concept that is needed to be

discussed directly. Let us first define poverty. Poverty is a social condition that is
characterized by the lack of resources necessary for basic survival or necessary to
meet a certain minimum level of living standards expected for the place where one
lives (Google). The World Bank Organization also defines poverty as complicated in
its nature such as hunger, lack of shelter, being sick and not being treated by medical
experts. Children suffer and died because of hunger and unhygienic conditions. The
situation allows the World Bank to conduct and categorizes extreme poverty as (living
under $1.90 a day) and moderate poverty (living under $ 3.10 a day).

People in Society is fortunate because we have two international major advocates in

eradicating poverty such as World Bank and United Nations. World bank monitors
the progress and data inputs of its technical team related to the SDG targets. World
Bank works hand in hand with the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development
Goals.

According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, Poverty is

the number 1 goal that should be zeroed in 2030. Worldwide, the problem on poverty
in rural areas is three times higher than the urban areas. Thus, it heightened the
inequality in the society. It is a cycle that is unbreakable especially in the developing
countries like Philippines. The root cause of Poverty in this country is complex in
nature that branches out into different reasons such as lack of education, lack of
jobs and large family size. In 2017, Young boys and girls aged 16-24 years old could
not afford anymore reaching the tertiary level because parents do not have the
financial capacity to sustain them to higher education. Children need to help their
parents in farming and fishing as their contributions to alleviate poverty in the
family. Likewise, the Government is continuously looking for means to assure the
public of the safety net amid health issue which is COVID 19 that created also major
problem on our daily lives. In 2018, 8% of employed people and families still
experienced extreme poverty. Philippines on the other hand poverty this year
dropping below into 20% because of its improving social protection program like 4Ps
has greatly alleviate the poverty rate in the country. World bank has its cooperative
role of seeing it also that poverty rate will lower to 19.8 percent next year and 18.7
percent in 2021.

Another concept that we need to discuss is Transnational Migration. It is a

process of people transfer from one country to another getting a job or look for
greener pasture as their form of survival. They are well known as foreign laborer or
expatriate. There are many challenges that transnational migrants are facing
sometimes it will lead to doubling their maintaining expenses in their dual citizenship
mode, their rewards as income tax payers for the benefits they enjoyed are not
commensurate to the environment they are living in. Another thing is the questions
on their loyalty because they are serving two countries. Migrants have more
contributions to the development of their community because of their skills being
passed on the locals where they are belonging. They can truly be a hero because of
their skills being imparted to the company or to their work as employees. Last, is
their shift and adjust to the environment they are settling in. In spite their
contributions there are instances that they meet more challenges because of their
migrant statuses such as gender, race, and class. Another formation of inequality
that hinders their being emigrants. In life, there are stories that would truly inspire
because they are transnational migrants and other also are sad parts because of
inhuman treatment in the country where they are living in. A formation also of three
kinds such as people who migrate, second is the family who receives the financial
support from the migrants and the last is the situation of people who never migrate
and no other sources of living. Different strokes of people that are affected because
of the presence of social mobility or transferring of place from one another looking
for convenience and comfortable lives. The scenario will link to Poverty (Goal # 1),
Migration (Goal#9 & 10) to the SDG 2030 Agenda, migrant workers brought two great
impacts to the following: First impact will be on the origin country they belong
because Remittances for their families mean economic value to their origin. In the
Philippines, Central Bank has its major role to fasten the remittances of the
residents. Second, host countries will be benefited by their delivery services leading
to the increase in production relatively increase the supply of goods and services.
Because of skills and innovation that the migrant workers demonstrated, the more
chances of adapting it by the locals.
In the Philippines, working abroad individuals are called Overseas Filipino
Workers. Fortunately, there are government policies that protecting our OFWs such
as:
1. RA 10801- mandated as provider of programs and services for the welfare
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) through OWWA (Overseas Welfare Workers
Association)
2. RA 10364- The Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012. It combats
trafficking and violators.
3. RA 10906- new law that protects married women from their foreign husbands
that caused their anxiety and also strengthening the Anti-Mail Order Bride Act of
1990.
Let us consider the Local Sectors in their initiatives to eradicate poverty. They
created Cities Alliance (CA) collaborated with Asian Development Bank to improve
urban management. One of the objectives under this partnership is slum eradication
where in an approach for poverty eradication through a City Development Strategy.
We all know that United Nation strongly supported the upgrading of poor urban
communities called CWS or City Without Slums Program. They believed that by this
year 2020, remarkable achievement of 100 million dwellers upgrading their lifestyle
from what the head of the state agreed upon from UN Millennium Summit last
September 2000.

ACTIVITIES

Directions: Complete the table below by listing down 5 Government agencies that
are related to poverty and transnational migration. Based on the government
programs, determine the corresponding contributions it brought to the society and
describe how it is being implemented. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.
(Individual Work)
 WRAP-UP

To synthesize our lesson for today, let us consider answering the essence of
the lesson.

Direction. Fill up the missing statement conscientiously.

Poverty

Government Agency Major Contribution Implementation

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Transnational
Migration
Government Agency Major Contribution Implementation

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

1.From the concept of Poverty, I learned that ……………………...

2. Transnational migration benefits …………………………………………….

VALUING
 International agenda in eradicating poverty and cannot be successful without
the help of its major advocates like World Bank and United Nations. Asian
Development Bank tapping other developing countries to have National Agenda down
to its Cities as their Citywide Development programs.

Directions: Look at your own barangay. Name the different programs/project of

our Local Government manifested in your barangay to help eradicate poverty and
transnational migration.

POSTTEST
Direction: Choose the best answer from the items below.
1. It is a state or condition which an individual lack of financial to meet her/his
financial resources and needs in a minimum level of living standards.
a. Deficiency b. Poverty c. Laxity d. Scarcity
2. A process of movement from one country to another getting a job building
connection from his new country without forgetting his origin country.

LOCAL PROJECTS IN THE CITY HOW IT IS DONE

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
a. Emigration b. Immigration
c. Procedure d. Transnational Migration
3. What goal in which the objective is eradication of poverty by all means.
a. SDG Goal # 1 b. SDG Goal # 3
c. SDG Goal # 9 d. SDG Goal #10
4. Programs and Services provider for the welfare Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
through OWWA (Overseas Welfare Workers Association).
a. RA 7845 b. RA 10906 c. RA 10801 d. RA 10364
5. International advocates in which the main concern is Zero poverty globally.
a. World Bank & United Nation c. China Bank and United Kingdom
b. United Arab Emirates & Dubai d. United Kingdom for Love and Support
6. It combats trafficking and violators in which it is expanded to Anti-Trafficking in
Persons Act 2012.
a. RA 7845 b. RA 10906 c. RA 10801 d. RA 10364
7. It strengthening the Anti-Mail Order Bride Act of 1990 protecting married women
against anxiety from their foreign husbands.
a. RA 7845 b. RA 10906 c. RA 10801 d. RA 10364
8. The benefits given to the host country once there are presence of transnational
migration.
a. It fuels growth b. Innovation c. Entrepreneurship d. All of them
9. A local program that eradicate poverty which is supported by City Alliances and
Asian Development Bank.

a. City without Slums Program. b. City Wide Strategy

c. City Support Group d. City Lending Program
10. A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all and it address
the global challenges related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental
issues, peace and justice.

a. Sustainable Development Goals b. United States Blueprint

c. United To Reform d. United We Stand

KEY TO CORRECTION

5. A 5.DFA 5. TESDA
4.B 4. NEDA 4. PCW 8. D
3. A 3. POEA 3. NFA 7. B
2. A 2. DOLE 2. CDA 6. D
1. C 1. OWWA 1. NAPC 5. A
Pre test Activity 1 ACTIVITY 2 4. D
3. A
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