Sakadas ( es, sacadas; krj, manga sakada; ilo, dagiti sakada; hil, mga sakada; roughly "imported ones") is a term for

migrant worker A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. Migrant workers who work outsi ...

s 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 Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only ...

as "skilled laborers" from 1906 to 1946 mainly from the

Ilocos Ilocos Region ( ilo, Rehion/Deppaar ti Ilocos; pag, Sagor na Baybay na Luzon/Rehiyon Uno; tl, Rehiyon ng Ilocos) is an administrative region of the Philippines, designated as Region I, occupying the northwestern section of Luzon and part of ...

region of the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

History

The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association approved a plan to recruit labor from the Philippines in April 1906 and asked

Albert F. Judd Albert Francis Judd Jr. (1874–1939) was a lawyer and trust officer in the Territory of Hawaii. Personal life Judd was born December 20, 1874, in Honolulu. His father was Albert Francis Judd (1838–1900) and mother Agnes Hall (Boyd) Judd. Hi ...

to represent them. The first Filipino farm laborers in Hawaii arrived in December 1906 from Candon,

Ilocos Sur Ilocos Sur, officially the Province of Ilocos Sur ( ilo, Probinsia ti Ilocos Sur; tl, Lalawigan ng Ilocos Sur), is a province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Located on the mouth of the Mestizo River is the capital o ...

, aboard the .

References

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 History of Antique (province) History of Ilocos Sur History of Negros Occidental History of Negros Oriental Filipino-American history Filipino-American culture in Hawaii {{Labor-stub

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