Photographer and artist Xyza Cruz Bacani knows what it is like to grow up without a mother present; hers was overseas working in the home of a Hong Kong family to provide a better life for Bacani and her siblings, who remained in the Philippines. Years later, Bacani joined her mother to work in that same Hong Kong household as a migrant domestic worker, a move that proved fateful for the young Filipina, as she discussed in the latest episode of the HKFP Yum Cha podcast. Now based in New York City, Bacani spoke to HKFP during her first trip back to Hong Kong in years after being kept away by a …
