Sakadas (Spanish: sacadas; Kinaray-a: manga sakada; Ilocano: dagiti sakada; Hiligaynon: mga sakada; roughly "imported ones") is a term for migrant workers in and from the Philippines, doing manual agricultural labor. Within the Philippines, sakadas work in provinces other than their own. In the 20th century, Filipino men were imported by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to Hawaii as "skilled laborers" from 1906 to 1946 mainly from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.[1]
History
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association approved a plan to recruit labor from the Philippines in April 1906 and asked Albert F. Judd to represent them.[2] The first Filipino farm laborers in Hawaii arrived on December 20, 1906 from Candon, Ilocos Sur, aboard the SS Doric (1883).[3]
See also
References
Further reading
- Alcantara, Ruben R. (1981). Sakada: Filipino adaptation in Hawaii. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. ISBN 0-8191-1579-7.
- Alcantara, Ruben R. (1977). The Filipinos in Hawaii: an annotated bibliography. Honolulu: Social Sciences and Linguistic Institute, University of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0612-3.
- Cariaga, Roman R. (1937). The Filipinos in Hawaii: economic and social conditions 1906-1936. Honolulu: Filipino Public Relations Bureau.
- Hawaii Filipino News Specialty Publications (1981). The Filipinos in Hawaii: the first 75 years, 1906-1981 : a commemorative book. Honolulu: Hawaii Filipino News Specialty Publications. ISBN 0-9606336-0-X.
External links
- Filipino History in Hawaii before 1946: The Sakada Years of Filipinos in Hawaii
- The Filipino Century Beyond Hawaii: A report
- Filipino Workers in Hawaii, 1926 Photographs in Connection with the Investigation of Working Conditions of Filipino Laborers on Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, 1926