Filipinos in Palau

{{Infobox ethnic group

| group = Filipinos in Palau

| image =

| population = 4,000–7,000{{Cite news|title=A tale of two states|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/opinion/view_article.php?article_id=3947|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222191034/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/opinion/view_article.php?article_id=3947|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-22|date=2006-06-06|access-date=2008-04-11|last=Tan|first=Lesley|periodical=Cebu Daily News}}{{cite news|url=http://www.op.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1500&Itemid=27|title=Today, there are some 4,000 Filipinos working and...|date=2008-04-02|publisher=Philippine Office of the President|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412050313/http://www.op.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1500&Itemid=27|archive-date=2010-04-12|url-status=dead}}

| popplace = Palau
39% of Palau population (2022)

| langs = Tagalog, Palauan, English, other Philippine languages, Spanish

| rels = Mostly Roman Catholicism{{·}}Protestantism

| related-c = Filipino people, Overseas Filipinos, Austronesian peoples

}}

Filipinos in Palau consist of contract workers from the Philippines and their dependents living in Palau. The approximately 7,000 Filipinos living in Palau make up about 35% of the entire population of Palau, and make up the second-largest ethnic group after Palauans.{{cite web|url=http://www.apa.si.edu/filamcentennial/keynote_2006.html |title=SINGGALOT (Ties That Bind) |last=Alegado |first=Dean T. |year=2005 |publisher=FAHNS |access-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121023537/http://apa.si.edu/filamcentennial/keynote_2006.html |archive-date=January 21, 2009 }} In addition, the Tagalog language is the fourth most-spoken language in Palau.{{cite web|url=http://www.news.ops.gov.ph/Palau-visit2008.htm|title=Palau president on 2-day state visit to RP|date=2008-04-01|publisher=news.ops.gov.ph|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012104722/http://www.news.ops.gov.ph/Palau-visit2008.htm|archive-date=2008-10-12|url-status=dead}}

==History==

Filipinos first arrived in Palau during the Spanish colonial period, when Palau was still part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines (1565–1898). Palau was integrated to the First Philippine Republic near the end of the Philippine Revolution, but the Philippines lost control after their defeat in the Philippine-American War. After World War II there was a resurgence of Filipino people coming to Palau.{{cite news|url=http://www.news.ops.gov.ph/palau2008-speech.htm|title=PGMA's Speech during a State Banquet|date=2008-04-02|publisher=news.ops.gov.ph|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-date=2010-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617160404/http://www.news.ops.gov.ph/palau2008-speech.htm|url-status=dead}} They served as serviceman in the United States Navy, and came to work at a power plant. In the 1970s, about 200 Filipinos were living and working in Palau, mostly in teaching and professional positions.{{cite journal|last=Alegado|first=Dean|author2=Finin, Gerard A.|date=Fall 2000|title=Exporting People: The Philippines and Contract Labor in Palau|journal=The Contemporary Pacific |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|volume=12|issue=2|pages=359–370|issn=1527-9464|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/contemporary_pacific/v012/12.2alegado.pdf|access-date=2009-02-07|doi=10.1353/cp.2000.0039|hdl=10125/13542|hdl-access=free}} Today, there are 4,495 Filipinos that live legally in Palau, and twenty-one of them are permanent residents, while the rest, 4,434, are migrant workers.{{cite news|url=http://www.ofwjournalism.net/previousweb/vol7no2&3/prevstories7206.php|title=Pinoys top foreigners in 16 countries|last=Garcia|first=Madeline Joy A.|year=2008|publisher=OFW Journalism|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005092716/http://www.ofwjournalism.net/previousweb/vol7no2%263/prevstories7206.php|archive-date=2011-10-05|url-status=dead}} However, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Saipan estimates that 80% of Filipinos living in Palau are undocumented immigrants.{{cite news|url=http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=62090|title='Most Filipino workers in Palau are undocumented'|last=Calindas|first=Marconi|date=2006-10-17|publisher=Saipan Tribune|access-date=2009-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518065219/http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=62090|archive-date=2008-05-18|url-status=dead}} In 2007, four people, two Filipinos and two Taiwanese, were arrested, jailed and fined for smuggling several Filipinos into Palau.{{cite news|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view_article.php?article_id=67390|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711084036/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view_article.php?article_id=67390|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-11|title=2 Filipinas, 2 Taiwanese jailed for Palau human trafficking|last=Uy|first=Veronica|date=2007-05-22|publisher=Global Nation|access-date=2009-02-07}}