ABSTRACT
This chapter examines migrant Filipinas' post-migration social movements in Canada. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) records that by the 1960s only 800 Filipino immigrants were settled in Canada. Since the 1990s Filipino migration intensified and most arrive in Canada through the economic migration stream. The migration challenges of Filipino women lead to global sharing of experiences that result in the creation of post-migration adaptation strategies and successful integration models. The characteristics of earlier waves of Filipinos in Canada are: strong family ties and family togetherness; the participation in church religious activities in the Catholic church, which is the continuity of life rituals in the Philippines; leadership in the church continues to be male-centred. The characteristics of later waves of Filipino religious participation include: separation of families through migration policy; loosening of ties to Roman Catholicism; the presence of women in church leadership ushers in a new dimension in the roles of the church among newcomers.
