Family and care take many forms in the context of migration and are a recurring theme in many of the testimonies presented here. They reveal how the responsibility for sustaining family life and providing care often falls to women, shaping both their migration experiences and life choices.

For some, migration means leaving children, partners, or other family members behind in order to provide financial security and create better opportunities for those at home. Care is practised across borders: through remittances, regular contact, emotional support, and the ongoing effort to maintain family ties despite physical distance. These forms of transnational care are often accompanied by high expectations, feelings of responsibility, and the pressure to support loved ones from afar.

The testimonies also highlight the role of outsourced care. Women who migrate to take up paid care work often rely on others to care for their own children, parents, or households in their absence. In this way, care responsibilities are transferred across families, communities, and countries, revealing the unequal distribution of reproductive labour and the wider social consequences of global care migration.

At the same time, the accounts speak of building new families abroad, drawing on family and community networks, and reuniting with loved ones after periods of separation. Migration can create new possibilities for family life, while also reshaping relationships, roles, and responsibilities.

Many testimonies further reflect the ongoing negotiation between motherhood, professional aspirations, mobility, and familial expectations. They tell of women balancing paid work and care responsibilities, pursuing careers alongside family life, and challenging traditional assumptions about gender roles. Together, these experiences show how migration not only transforms patterns of care but also opens spaces to redefine family, work, and personal identity.