Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love

How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for families, documenting the difficulties of family separation and the problems that children have when reuniting with their mothers in Vancouver.

Publication Date: February 2012