ABSTRACT
The view from Whitehorse in the Canadian North opened another set of relationships, including the repetition of different experiences of family separation within settler colonialism. Nanay grew out of a frustration with a kind of comparative analysis that feeds Canadian complacency with –and complicity in–a process of migration that causes great hardship and struggle for many Filipino families. The politics of Filipino migration took and takes shape differently in different contexts. In Canada, this politics of refusal exists in varying forms as well. The promise and prospect of Filipino inclusion in Canada potentially directs attention away from the conditions that force migration from the Philippines and divides interests within the Filipino diaspora. Some in the Filipino community in Canada have also taken up doubts about inclusion within Canada as a settler-colonial nation, as a way of imagining living in Canada differently.
