Picturing Migration
First Generation, Tita and Emet Comodas
From the Philippines to Saudi Arabia
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Tita and Emet’s Wedding
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Tita and Emet’s Wedding
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Tita and Emet with Young Children
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Tita and Emet with Young Children
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The Shantytown: Leveriza
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The Shantytown: Leveriza
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Emet’s Work Permit in Saudi Arabia
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Emet in Saudi Arabia
Second Generation: Rosalie Comodas Villanueva
From the Philippines to Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi
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Rosalie As Student Nurse with Tita
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Rosalie’s Nursing Graduation
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Rosalie as a Young Nurse in Saudi Arabia
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Chris Villanueva in Jiddah
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Rosalie and Chris’s Wedding
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First Child
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Rosalie in Abu Dhabi
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Grandparents’ Care
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Family Separation
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Rosalie Packing for the United States
Third Generation: Kristine, Lara, and Dominique Villanueva
The Family Reunites in Texas
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Arriving in Galveston
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Galveston Beach
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Kristine in Fourth Grade
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Lara in Third Grade
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Staying in touch
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First snow
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Statue of Liberty
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Grocery shopping
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A House in the Suburbs
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A House in the Suburbs
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A House in the Suburbs
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Kristine’s 13th Birthday
First Visit to the Philippines: A Return after Four Years in the States
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First Communion
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First Communion
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Grandfather and Granddaughter
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Roosters
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Back from Abroad
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Tita and Emet
Tess Aliscad: The Facebook Mom
An Abu Dhabi Nanny, Marites used technology to stay in touch with her children while working abroad
Manu Navarette and Ariane Salazar-Navarette: The Cruise Ship Workers
A shipboard accident in St. Martin nearly killed Manu, who is married to Rosalie’s cousin
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Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami
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Manu and Ariane
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Manu back home in the Philippines
The author and the family: Three decades of reporting
With Tita, 1987
With Emet, 1987
With Tita and Rosalie, 1987
Leveriza, 2006
Taking notes, 2006
The family, 2010
(In the Philippine compound)
Galveston Beach, 2013
(Kristine, Lara, Dominique)
Vacation 2015
(With Rosalie and Kristine, in San Francisco)
First Communion (2016)
(With Kristine and Lara in the Philippines)