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Sakadas

group of workers from the Philippines

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7402733 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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. The first Filipino farm laborers in Hawaii arrived on December 20, 1906 from Candon, Ilocos Sur, aboard the SS Doric (1883).

See also

Hacienda

Carlos Bulosan

History of Filipino Americans

Manong generation

Negrense

Nicholas Loney

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).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sakadas” as group of workers from the Philippines. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1946, 1883, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sakadas, group and workers can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as group of workers from the Philippines. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7402733. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1946, 1883 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sakadas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.