… Exploratory Research on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Lives of Working Children and their Families Exploratory Research on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Lives of Working Children and their Families Kindernothilfe 2020 Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected children’s lives …

This paper explores perspectives on family reunification and emergent forms of separation among young migrants. These young people lived apart from and later reunited with their migrant parents who moved from the Philippines to Canada for work. The author draws from 15 months of ethnographic, arts-based, and participatory research with ten participants living in Greater Vancouver. While reunification literature and child rights discourse often focus on the process of a mother and child coming back together, this can obscure the relationships that young people form with others in the meantime…