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Two profiles from the diaspora.

In the Daily Mail (London), July 3: Barefaced Contessa jailed for 5 years for fleecing 2.3 million pounds from unsuspecting victims. “A conwoman who claimed to be the world’s richest person to fleece victims of their life savings was jailed for five years yesterday. Elda Beguinua, 63, known as the ‘Barefaced Contessa’, claimed she was an aristocrat worth ‘£300 followed by 41 noughts’ making her a ‘tredecillionaire’. Filipina Beguinua, who lived in a rented semi in Dulwich, South London, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of a string of fraud charges. . .”

In the New York Times, July 10: Nurse claims employer enslaved her.
“According to 2006 census data, more than 2.9 million people in the United States consider themselves of Filipino origin; nearly 1.6 million were born abroad. Filipinos have especially flooded domestic service jobs as well as the nursing field, where they have helped to relieve the shortage of registered nurses. Filipino nurses are now the single largest group of foreign-educated nurses in the United States. Of the New York metropolitan area’s 215,000 Filipinos, about 3 out of 10 work as nurses or other health-care practitioners, and many of the remainder are their relatives, according to a census analysis by Susan Weber-Stoger, a demographer at Queens College.”